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    "id": 884410,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/884410/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "any arrears because in real sense, monies are supposed to be spent as projects are submitted annually. If there are monies meant for the previous financial year that were not used in a constituency, in the next allocation of money to that particular constituency, those projects that were not done need to be the first beneficiaries of the first transfers in the next financial year. If we did it like that, there would be no arrears as at now. Previously, we have been skipping years because some of the projects of the previous year were not finished. Therefore, a year or a number of months are skipped then in the next transfer, the constituency moves to implement the other projects. That is happening even now. There are constituencies that have monies for projects that have not yet been completed in terms of transfers of the last financial year. There were instructions this year that the little money that was allocated two weeks ago should not go into those projects. They must go into the new projects. That is why we are accumulating arrears. The board needs to take care of this. There should be no arrears. It is illegal. If that is the case, Treasury should not hold our money. The money should be held by the board such that each financial year, the board can trace back which constituency has outstanding projects that are yet to be completed. Those projects should be completed with the first transfers. There is also the issue of audits. I am the Member who ole Metito referred to as picking this up with the Auditor-General in the last one week or so. In as much as the NG-CDF is so small, it is subjected to a series of audits that are completely different from others."
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