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    "id": 834904,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kathuri Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": "The NG-CDF Board should fill existing vacancies of Fund Account Managers and regional coordinators and it should adhere to this deployment policy on the maximum number of years that Fund Account Managers should be engaged in a constituency. On this one, we recommended that it should be implemented within three months of the adoption of this Report by the House. Members will agree with me that as we do the oversight role, sometimes it is hard to trace the fund manager serving your constituency. When he has two or three constituencies, his or her efficiency becomes zero. Therefore, the constituents are not served well. So, we have recommended that all the vacant positions should be filled within the three months that we have given so that every constituency can have an independent Fund Account Manager. By so doing, the fund will be effectively managed by the fund managers. Issue number (j) is operations of the NG-CDF Board. The Committee observed that the NG-CDF Board was not fully constituted as provided under Section 15 (1) (e) of the NG-CDF Act 2015 which has created challenges in raising quorum to transact business. This has occasioned delays in project approvals and ultimately then to non- implementation of projects, which is subject to audit query and reported low absorption of funds, that constituents did not get value for money. We also observed the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the board was appointed in acting capacity in 2011 and remains acting to date. That is a cool seven years while the CEO is working in an acting capacity. The NG-CDF Board secretariat was constrained in its human resource capacity to offer the requisite technical support to the 290 constituencies. The secretariat did not have the capacity to prepare Fund Account Managers for audits and did not offer support to ensure that issues raised in the Auditor-General’s reports are resolved before the next audit cycle. We also observed that the board’s resolution to withhold release of funds to constituencies that had a balance of Kshs10 million and above in their accounts affected implementation of projects. This policy was meant to mitigate against cash flow by creating allowable administrative balances prior to release of funds to constituencies. This is actually a very common issue because the board has a regulation that once the Fund Account Manager in the constituency has more than Kshs10 million in the constituency account, there is no more money given to the constituency before that amount is reduced to less than Kshs10 million. This policy has affected so many projects. Maybe you might realise that some of the money which is getting to Kshs10 million and above is money given as bursaries and the institutions actually have not been able to bank the cheques during the previous system. Therefore, the Committee recommends that the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning appoints seven other persons to the NG-CDF Board as provided under Section 15 (1) (e) of the NG-CDF Act 2015 so that the board can be fully operational to make decisions pertaining the funds. The NG-CDF Board fills the position of the CEO who has remained in 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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