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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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    "content": "money allocated to it. Health services are in a terrible mess and yet, a lot of money is allocated for them. I am thinking that the Senate should come up with some legislation that will force counties to use community systems of implementing projects. That is so that this centralisation does not emerge again. We devolved money because centralisation was not working for us. Once the money is devolved to a county like Homa Bay, it should not get stuck at Homa Bay. It is centralised by a few individuals like the Governor, the Deputy Governor and the County Executive Committee Members who now decide how to spend it at will. This same money needs to be devolved to the projects. We need to emphasise the formation of project implementation committees so that they are given the funds and are overseen by the county government. If we do that, I am sure a community that desires to have water will have it. If they are given money to do a borehole and distribute water within their community, no one will alter that. If they are nine members of the community for example, I do not think those people will be mad enough to embezzle that money without any water being drilled. That is, to me, one of the main reasons I wanted to contribute to this Motion. The system we have under the NG-CDF in a small way does great. It is a small way because, how much is it? A constituency has only Kshs100 million. The biggest project you can implement is, say, costing Kshs2 million. If we can give schools money to put up laboratories and that school has a project committee and they implement the construction of a laboratory and have it done, why can a county government which wants to put up Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) Curriculum centres not also have the money go to the project committee of the ECDE to be constructed? The reason counties do not want this is that they do not want to let go the money they want to embezzle. That can also affect other national Government ministries and departments. As I wind up, I have heard that my colleagues have talked about a monitoring committee. I want to ask the Chairman of NG-CDF... I do not see him here. He should have been here when we are discussing the accounts of NG-CDF Committee. That is Hon. Maoka Maore. We need this Committee to start functioning. We created it in law and yet, it is not functioning. You cannot have a committee in place where the NG-CDF is getting allowances and yet, this committee just works without allowances. We need to have a portion of the NG-CDF. If anything - and my colleagues will agree with me - the only Government funding which has the least administrative cost is this. If you calculate how much goes to the administration, it is below 20 per cent. There is no any other expense. The reverse is the case. It is actually five per cent because the others are statutory like the emergency charge which is still going to development. It is very low. But, go to national Government funds, probably only 20 per cent, if you are lucky, goes to development. So, that Committee is supposed to help in monitoring projects for all the 290 constituencies and it should start working. I think this Motion came last week or on Tuesday when some colleagues talked about the CEO of this board, Mr. Mbuno, who has been acting so long as I have been an MP. I only found the late former Clerk of the National Assembly who served a little. Then came Agnes Odhiambo, who is now the Controller of Budget. Then Mbuno took over on acting capacity for heaven’s sake. We are even spoiling the CV of this young man. You see, if you go looking for a job and put on your CV that you were acting between this period and that, for 10 years, someone will ask you what it means to act for 10 years. It means you are not qualified to be confirmed. This gentleman, for whatever it is worth, I would say in terms of relationship with MPs and serving us in this fund, he has excelled. If he failed, I am sure MPs would by now have gotten rid of him. To serve MPs and satisfy them when you are managing funds that have some direct impact on 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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