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    "id": 1581073,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "Many of my colleagues in this House expect the Public Investments Committee (PIC) to present a report containing the audited figures of a particular entity so that we evaluate its efficiency, prudency and effectiveness in spending public funds. However, this is a Motion on a Report by the Auditor-General seeking to determine what is happening at the NCPWD. The Report was tabled in July 2024. In May 2025, this House passed the Persons with Disabilities Act, which ended up correcting many of the observations that were made by the Auditor-General in this Report. The Auditor-General raised several issues indicating that the Council was not moving in the right direction or attaining the required threshold. I will enumerate various issues that form part of the concerns that struck the eye of the Auditor- General, prompting her to move in, start the audit and submit the Report to the House. First, were delays in the registration of persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities are subjected to various delays in registration. Only through registration can a person with disabilities be recognised. The registration process is very tedious because an individual cannot register themselves. Instead, the Director of Medical Services is the approved entity to list or enumerate persons with disabilities. Who is the Director of Medical Services? Is he or she always available to register persons with disabilities? This results in a backlog of unsigned disability assessment forms at the county level. It is not easy. We only have about six medical officers who are eligible to enumerate persons with disabilities. What happens to the others? Hon. Temporary Speaker, a number of counties have made disability assessment free of charge, yes, while others continue to charge between Ksh200 to Ksh1,500 for one to be registered. These are statistics for the audit that was carried out between 2013 and 2020. The Auditor-General, on her own volition, moved in to find out what happens at the National The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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