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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "ground. It is one Fund that is doing the job as intended. I am not sure what could have happened to sectors like education in our constituencies if we did not have NG-CDF. As we commend the Committee for the job well done, I want to go back to the question I have always asked in this House; about the distribution of NG-CDF. We have some constituencies that are far large and populous than others. I come from a county where my constituency has eight wards. The neighbouring constituencies have three, four or five wards. When we do development through NG-CDF, people in the county wonder why I am not moving as fast as my colleagues. For that reason, I would want to urge the Special Funds Accounts Committee to include in its report its observation and recommendations on the distribution of NG-CDF in our constituencies. I did hear mention of graders that were supposed to be disposed of. I am one of the lucky Members of Parliament who found a grader that is yet to be disposed of. Within the short time I have served, I have been able to utilise the grader very effectively by opening up roads that lead to our schools. Some of the schools that were inaccessible in my constituency are now accessible. I, therefore, urge that instead of disposing of the graders, given the fact that the county governments are not able to work on some of the rural roads that lead to schools in a faster manner as we would expect, the Committee should accept that we retain the graders for at least five to 10 years so that we can fully open up the access roads. For that reason, I would urge that they look at the possibility of allowing us to use part of the funds for administration to maintain some of the graders to do the good work that we are doing. Another area I would urge the Special Funds Accounts Committee and the NG-CDF Committee to look at is the area of innovativeness; innovative projects and programmes that can support the Big Four Agenda. There are some innovations in our constituencies that are very effective and less costly. They could support the Big Four Agenda. But because they are not included in the four areas of NG-CDF – that is, education, security, environment and sports – we are not able to support those ideas, and especially those projects that are related to youth and women. They are projects that could be very effective and would support the Big Four Agenda. I would ask that the respective committees look at the possibility of amending the Act so that we can be allowed to implement innovative activities in a modest manner in as far as finances are concerned. There was mention of old projects. Yes, we are not sure of how to deal with some of the projects that we found on the ground. They were not approved by the board and yet they were done, some complete, some incomplete. We do not know how to deal with them. I hope now we will be given direction. On the fund account managers, it is true that there are some who have stayed in some constituencies for too long and others who probably require some retraining to catch up with modern ways of doing things so that we, as Members of Parliament, may find it easier when we oversee the management of our constituencies. On the issue of AIE, we receive funds but AIE takes like a month. I do not understand how money can be released and then an AIE takes a month to reach the ground. To that effect, I 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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