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    "speaker_name": "South Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Yesterday evening I made good progress in moving this Motion. So, I will share the 20 minutes with Hon. Omuse who will be seconding the Motion. I just want to give some highlights on the issues that we have captured in the Report. This afternoon, Members have talked passionately about how NG-CDF has improved this country. I am therefore very happy as the Chair of the Special Funds Accounts Committee that we now have an opportunity to check on how this money is being used in the constituencies. Since 2013, these are the first examined reports that have been brought to this House and I am very happy that Members will be able to interact with the Report and understand what happens with this money when it goes to the constituencies. Also, Kenyans will have an opportunity now to check whether this money is used prudently or not and whether the citizens get value for their money or not. I would like to talk about the late disbursement of funds as we discussed in the Supplementary Appropriation Bill. You can see that the monies which were expected as early as the first quarter of the 2018/2019 Financial Year have not been released to the constituencies to date. This is the second quarter of 2018/2019. Therefore, you will agree with me that the projects that we are supposed to do in 2018/2019 will be carried forward to the 2019/2020 Financial Year. It is important that these monies are released on time so that the projects can run as budgeted for. Another issue is, the Fund Account Managers wherever they are, should ensure that they are really prepared for the auditors. In most circumstances, the audit queries emanate from the fact that the Fund Account Managers are not able to give the auditors the required documents such as the financial statements or bank statements, to include them in their audit. Therefore, when the auditors are at the constituency for one week, sometimes they leave without having examined all the documents that they need. Our recommendation as a committee is that we want to ensure that an electronic transfer in bursary awards is actualised by NG-CDF board. In most cases there are delays, cheques are written to institutions and some of the students suffer without getting the money. Some of them are forced to be out of class during exams. Therefore, we want to recommend that whenever NG- CDFC passes bursaries in their committee, the Fund Account Managers will be having a list of all the institutions, with their bank accounts, and they will automatically transfer that money to the respective institutions such as schools and colleges. As I mentioned yesterday, there are so many stalled projects which were devolved, especially on health. We have therefore recommended that NG-CDF board gives us an audit of all these projects wherever they are so that they can be completed in conjunction with the county government. Treasury can do conditional grants for those projects so that they can be completed. The other thing that we recommended is that the district accountants be increased to four in Nairobi County constituencies. Currently, they only have one who is not very efficient."
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