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    "id": 832408,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gichugu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gichimu Githinji",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Gichimu Githinji",
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    "content": "other parts of the country. Going forward, we hope to receive audited reports from our constituencies to see how they are performing and where they have failed so that we can tell our NG-CDF Committees led by fund managers to improve where necessary. I must say that NG-CDF is very well structured. I believe if all the other Government monies going to the counties were structured in the same way, we would not have corruption cases in some areas at both the county and national levels. If Government money was structured in terms of how much should be used for administration, development and other costs, then we can take this country to the next level. An area like the emergency fund has been very helpful and is provided at 5 per cent. This money comes in handy especially when there are disasters. We are just from very heavy rains in most areas. In Gichugu Constituency, we had many landslides, toilets sunk and kids did not have a place to relieve themselves. Therefore, the emergency fund came in handy and we built many toilets which helped our pupils at the secondary level. Going forward, the Committee should be keen on incomplete projects. Most projects were started more than 10 years ago. The amounts they were allocated cannot match the amount required to complete them due to inflation and other factors. I suggest that when this Committee is going round, it should team up with the NG-CDF committees. They should then see whether they can give permission to the current committees being overseen by MPs to have Bills of Quantities (BQs) for projects which are at a completion level. What is happening is that some of the committees fear completing some of the old projects because of the audit queries. This is because you do not know how much was pumped into those projects. There are new committees that are coming in place and they are not aware of where to start. Those are some of the areas that the Special Funds Accounts Committee and the NG-CDF Committee should try and sieve and come up with a list of all the incomplete projects so that they can give a way forward."
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