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    "id": 875496,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Chris Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "I thank the Special Funds Accounts Committee. They have done very well and it is being chaired by an Independent Member. The observations that have been highlighted here cut across the entire country when it comes to implementation. The fund managers are the Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) holders. Many times when you want to succeed in any constituency… There is a positive correlation between the performance of a constituency and the kind of fund manager you have. There are some fund managers who are obstacles to development. Since they are the AIE holders, they add a lot of value when it comes to speed on how they manage the process of procurement and payments. It is important for the NG-CDF Board to continuously train the fund managers. In the last Parliament, we had put a clause that the fund managers should report to the chairs of the NG-CDF committees of their respective constituencies. That never worked. Some of those fund managers do not work daily. They work selectively, maybe twice in a week. It is high time the NG-CDF Board put measures in place in so far as performance management is concerned. It looks awkward for the NG-CDF Board to release the money but when it comes to releasing by the AIE holder, it takes more than three weeks because ordinarily, when it comes to the constituency projects, they are selected from the bottom. Once they are compiled, they are forwarded to the NG-CDF Board which will approve. Money is given based on the proposals that you submitted. So, the question is: Why do they delay the AIE and without it, work cannot move on? This is the place and section that we need to revisit."
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