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"content": "very closely with contractors. Realizing that most of the committee members that we have managing CDF, I am talking of project management committees of different CDF projects in our constituencies, are illiterate; people who have never had any experience in terms of building and technically supervising these structures--- I am particularly talking of very basic structures like classrooms and health centres. Most of the times, the contractors, the quantity surveyors or the engineers that we have at the district level, somehow work very closely with these contractors and as a result, we lose a lot of money from the CDF kitty. This is one area where even as hon. Members, even our committee members at the constituency level cannot say no to the technical input that they get from the Ministry of Public Works. So, at the end of the day, that is taxpayersâ money and, as a result, there must be some technical basis for the decisions that we make. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I really call upon the Ministry, after realizing the critical role that the Constituencies Development Fund plays in stimulating development in all the corners of this nation and the 210 constituencies, to see how our officers in the Ministry of Public Works could be technically supervised. I am not sure whether the information or the kind of technical documents that we get, for example, bills of quantities or the actual designs are actually done in a way that it is correct, right and fair, both in terms of the amount of money that we are investing and even the amount of time that we take to finish those projects. There is need for supervision from the head office or from the provincial office. Even if you do a random check in terms of the kind of technical support they give us, most of the time, they are not even available for close monitoring. They have to visit our projects! They have to go and see those structures so that they can technically approve and enable us to make the payments. Sometimes, we are forced to do letters and approve those structures without the technical approval, which is very, very critical from the Ministry of Public Works."
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