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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Bay High School. Is the library there? Go to Ogande School. Check whether the dormitory is there. That way, you will come up with an independent report which is not adulterated by the nice talks between members of the team moving together with the auditors. That way, people merely engaged in oversight can help. If we go that way, we would give a lot of credit to some constituencies which are not getting their due credit. Let me join Hon. Olago Aluoch. I heard him speak about our role as MPs in oversight and the funding for the oversight committee. I sat on the Committee on the Constituencies Development Fund in the last Parliament following the nullification of the previous Act. I presided over the making of the NG-CDF regulations. When we sat in a retreat to refine the regulations, we agreed that all the money we had committed to monitoring and evaluation goes to the Constituency Oversight Committee because there is no monitoring and evaluation the NG- DFC does beyond their normal administration work. I remember the regulations we left Mombasa with were that a third of the money allocated to monitoring and evaluation was to go towards the Constituency Oversight Committee. A third of the funds allocated to monitoring and evaluation were to be 1 per cent of the entire NG-CDF allocation. I am shocked that we find ourselves in a situation where 1 per cent of the monitoring and evaluation allocation is what is available for the oversight committee down there. One per cent of the monitoring and evaluation fund for most constituencies is Kshs30,000 and below. In my constituency, among the people I sit with on the oversight committee of NG–CDF - because I am not on the NG-CDF like all of us - is a former commissioner. I want people who have the heart for education. He is a former commissioner of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) who believes in education. How do you share Kshs30,000 among four people for a whole year to undertake proper oversight? If we had proper oversight, the audit work would be a very easy thing to deal with. I request the Committee on CDF that what we have in terms of how we are funding the Constituency Oversight Committee was an error in publishing. It was not the last of the regulations we had. I believe Hon. Maoka Maore is strong enough. Hon. Lessonet who chaired the Committee on CDF last time is still there. Let them sit down. They will be merely correcting that regulation. Having noticed how important our oversight is, let us have all the funds committed to monitoring and evaluation going to oversight. It is a mere spelling out of the regulations. It is not in an Act. It is in the regulations. If you put it in the regulations that way, each time an MP is at home going through these projects with your team, you ensure that in as much you are not on the NG-DFC, only things which benefit the people are funded. The other proposal which I want to make is that the Government instituted the 100 per cent transition policy. Let me join all our colleagues in commending the Government for that act. We introduced 100 per cent transition without equivalent expansion of facilities in schools. Ogande Girls is a huge county school which produced Madam Ida Odinga and others. Because of the 100 per cent transition and students are sent there, we have classrooms which are classrooms during the day, but they are converted into dormitories from games time. We have mabati structures which serve as temporary dormitories for students in Ogande Girls. This is the situation in Homa Bay County. I went to Maseno School. I did not believe it produced two students in the top 10 in the last Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and five students in top 30. It is in ruins. My child was admitted to Maseno School. I am required to take bedding and mosquito nets. A cubicle which used to house eight students is now housing 30 students. The facilities are expanded badly. 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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