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    "speaker_name": "Mbooni, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Erastus Nzioka",
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        "legal_name": "Erastus Kivasu Nzioka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I thank the Committee Chairman for the good work done. As they say, behind every successful chair, there is a very strong team behind. Well done to the team. One issue that has come out very clear, which is worrying, is the late issuance of AIEs. We are in technological times and we wonder why the Treasury disbursements to the constituencies and the NG-CDF take almost two weeks or one month in terms of release of the hard copy of the AIE. We request and recommend that we have these AIEs issued electronically within three days. I fully support that. If they cannot release the hard copies, then they should be able to release the soft copies within that stipulated time. There is also the under-funding of the projects. In 2011/2012, we came across about Kshs542 million that was not released. In 2013/2014, about Kshs2.1 billion was not released. In 2014/2015, about Kshs2.3 billion was not released. That is a total of about Kshs4.9 billion that is still pending within Treasury, which is supposed to be implementing projects within the constituencies. This money is long overdue for the constituencies. That is why the Members of Parliament are talking about stalled projects because when we get in after elections and we find projects that are not completed, then we do our proposals for projects and money comes, many a times we go with the new projects. With this, I support fully the recommendation that this gets factored by the Treasury in the Supplementary Budget of 2018/2019 because we need to implement those projects in time. On the issue of bursaries, having been part of the Committee, I have realised that when they get released to the beneficiaries, many a times, many of the cheques become stale. They do not reach the institutions where they are supposed to reach. Now that we are living in technology times, we wonder why some of those transfers cannot be done electronically. We are requesting the NG-CDF to make sure that they review their guidelines and try to adopt an electronic transfer that is going to assist the constituents or the fund managers do their transfers within time electronically. At the same time, when doing our bursaries, we have also realised from the Nairobi constituencies that, many a times, bursaries are treated as emergencies and this raises 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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