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    "id": 832345,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this Report. First of all, I must commend the Chair, my erstwhile friend. We were with him in another Committee until he took a French leave or excused himself to concentrate on this important aspect. Congratulations for the wonderful job. Without exaggerating the matter, the NG-CDF has touched many lives in this country. If there is any form of devolved fund that has had tremendous impact on the ground, it is none other than the NG-CDF. Ideally, we feel that even the devolved governments should borrow a leaf from the NG-CDF. With that, we will rapidly develop our rural areas and constituencies. There are obvious challenges that we have experienced in the implementation of the NG- CDF projects. The first challenge is the carryover of projects from the predecessor of the NG- CDF to the current regime – the transition from the old Constitution to the new Constitution. We have so many incomplete and stalled projects that we are unable to allocate funds to and implement because they no longer fall within the mandate of the NG-CDF. For example, in Funyula Constituency, we have the Busijo Water Project that was purportedly completed on paper but on the ground, it was never completed. The funds spent in that project are literally wasted funds. We have very many buildings in the Sio Port Sub-County Hospital which were never completed and which the county government has refused to complete on account that it was not their project. They have no powers and authority to complete other Government agencies projects. It is a matter I want the Committee to seriously have a look at, discuss with the national board and the National Treasury and bring a Motion to this House which will allow us to complete these projects so that they serve the purpose for which they were intended and it applies to many other projects. In my constituency, we have the industrial or Jua Kali Park that has stalled for over eight years because it was implemented under the Economic Stimulus Programme, though it was never completed on time. We could have had funds to complete such projects so that they benefit the end recipients. Due to the restrictions of law; it is a problem to proceed. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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