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    "id": 471034,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I want to support this Motion from the outset. The regulation that stipulates how the elections of the CDFC should be done has caused a lot of anxiety. I remember when we were doing the elections there were some parts of this country where people who wanted to be elected as CDFC members took it like a campaign. I remember in one place, posters were printed. They created a campaign mode because of the length of time given for them to prepare themselves for the elections. When it is reduced to only one week, it is just enough time to consult and members will have peaceful elections. I want to echo the words of hon. Wamalwa in connection to the criteria we use for elections. When we elect members and leave a team at the ward level; these people later become disoriented because they are left hanging. We do not have regulations that stipulate how exactly they are supposed to play a role in the CDF, yet they are elected. These are the same members who masquerade as members of the CDFC as we carry out implementation of projects. They actually want to be given allowances because they believe they are members of the CDFC. No communication is made after the eight Members are picked. It will be important in future for us to amend that provision, so that we can either have ward representatives of CDFC who can be mandated with the responsibility of taking care of projects at that level, or we directly allow for elections to take place for only those eight members who are supposed to form the CDFC. On the issue of appointment, of course when there is an appointment, it also goes with firing. Some of the CDFC have become very notorious because they feel they were elected by the people and they have tenure of three to five years. They do not listen to the fund manager or the chair. If we have been given the mandate, then we can ensure that they deliver on the purpose they were actually elected for. On the issue of fund managers, these people are like small gods. The committee members think that the fund manager is the boss of the Member of Parliament. They come to work when they want and they are available only when they feel it is important for them, not for the CDFC members. Every week, we receive complaints and we have no way of playing oversight role except to believe what fund managers tell us. The employer sits in Nairobi and they are out there in the village. There is no way we can 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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