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    "id": 471049,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other point I want to touch on is the issue of the Kshs100 million minimum figure. We are only allowed 6 per cent of the money to be used for administrative purposes when it comes to the CDF. So, you can only allocate 6 per cent of the total budget for administrative issues. Look at what is happening in some of the counties. We have even heard of counties which are spending more than 100 per cent of the budget for recurrent expenditure. This means that there will be no development. In CDF you are assured of 94 per cent of the money going directly to development activities. I think that is how we are going to grow the economy of this country. I am implying that we need to provide more money for CDF in order to have this country grow. So, the proposal of Kshs100 million is good. We need to support this proposal so that this country develops. The other point is the issue of establishing this committee we are calling the Committee of Inspections and Acceptance. This particular committee is important. Currently, if you look at the board, the only person who sits on that board who is more of a Government person is the Deputy County Commissioner or the Sub County Commissioner. These are the people who sit there more as ex officio members. However, you will realize that most of the commissioners are administrators. They are not technical persons; they are not medical doctors, engineers and so on. Therefore, even though they sit on the board, they cannot really provide that technical input during implementation. That is why this committee being proposed is very important. In this committee, we could have education experts, medical doctors and engineers who will add value in terms of discussing and processing CDF projects. It is for that reason that I support the annulment of all these regulations because it will make the work of the board very easy and important especially when it comes to supervising the fund manager. We all know that the fund managers are people who need to be tamed. I really do not like the idea of leaving all these to the board. I think the CEO of CDF should also have a role in monitoring what the managers are doing because he is the person who pays them. You know the boards at the local level are not paying them so; at least, you can ignore the board. The CEO should make sure that these people are monitored on a daily basis. This will help the constituencies. With those remarks, I support the Motion."
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