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    "id": 38851,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/38851/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Education Sector Support Programme was started in 2005 and involved the Government of Kenya and various partners, namely Department for International Development (DFID), World Bank, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Government of Belgium, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), World Food Programme, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Government of Japan. The contributions of each of these organizations other than the USAID and the Government of Japan were pooled in one basket and managed through the Joint Financing Agreement (JFA). The implementation of this programme has been carried out with close co-ordination and co-operation of all the above stakeholders. The annual budgets were jointly discussed and approved. Quality consultative meetings were held and monitoring and evaluation was also jointly conducted. By December, 2009, a total of Kshs464,860,106,029 had been disbursed by all the stakeholders in Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSEP), the Government of Kenya having contributed the larger share of Kshs438,788,188,700. The genesis of the problem; this arose out of misappropriation of imprest that had been given to the officers in the Financial Year, 2008/2009. Following this, I initiated an audit, in conjunction with the Permanent Secretary, to verify these misappropriations. This represented 0.5 per cent of the targeted population at the Ministry headquarters. On receipt of the report, it was discussed and agreed that there was a need to conduct an extended audit because the fiduciary audit by the internal audit department concentrated on a small sample. The scope of the extended audit was captured in the audit, which was laid before this House by Rt. Hon. Prime Minister on 15th June, 2011, at paragraph 4, which states as follows:-"
}