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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is why we have talked about the Ministry dealing with matters relating to regional development. The way it is now, it is not proper. So, we made what we thought were fairly rational and considered proposals. I am giving the Report as it is now, but we are more than willing to talk about the issue and reach a reasonable conclusion. All we are saying is that, as it is now, without the roles being separated, it is not running properly. We would like to see a situation where the roles are properly separated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue which drove us to a line Ministry is that the CDF is acquiring a lot of assets which do not belong to one institution or the other. They belong to the community generally. For example, we want every constituency to acquire a constituency vehicle. You will find that, in order to run CDF affairs, hon. Members are forced to use their own vehicles, which is not proper, because it is like politicking with it. If you have an asset like that, who owns it? As a matter of fact, the computers, desks and so on, which we have in our constituency offices at the moment, really are floating. They do not have a legal owner. Therefore, we thought that if this CDF Secretariat was hosted in a Ministry, then the issue of ownership of assets would not arise any more. So, we have a problem of who actually owns the assets that are acquired through CDF. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will now go to a point which has been very topical. At the moment, the CDF is 2.5 per cent of the Government ordinary revenue. Allow me to clarify. It is not 2 per cent of the Budget as it is reported quite often in the media and elsewhere. The Budget itself is about Kshs400 billion. Our observation is that, throughout the country, there are success stories everywhere we go. The CDF primarily is for the provision of community infrastructure. Therefore, the success in community infrastructure is so high that we would wish to see it enhanced. It is, therefore, our considered opinion that we recommend the CDF amount to be increased from 2.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent of the ordinary Government revenue. Mr. Speaker, Sir, lastly, I would like to acknowledge the good work done by various contributors. I would wish to personally mention the name of the former Minister for Finance, Mr. Mwiraria, without whom it would have been very difficult to implement CDF as it is now. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will recall that at the beginning, we had a major problem as to how to implement CDF projects with the cumbersome procurement systems of Government. It took the goodwill of the then Minister for Finance to agree to sit with the Select Committee to agree on a workable system through which CDF could implement its programmes."
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