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    "content": "There is a requirement in law that money that is not spent - that is money drawn from the Civil Contingency Fund - is returned to the fund and to the National Treasury. However, that was not the case. The Kenya Red Cross Society continued to hold that money in their accounts as they waited to build more houses. Therefore, this begs the question whether we should be using a fund like the Civil Contingency Fund – that should be used to alleviate the suffering of people during emergencies – to do such heavy capital projects like building of houses and further continue to contravene the law by holding money that is unutilised and not returning it to fund as required by the law. Hon. Speaker, we have, therefore, left that to the PAC to carry on. I hope Hon. Opiyo Wandayi and his Committee will pick up that matter and carry on with it. (c) THAT, the National Treasury builds capacity in streamlining the process of planning and approval of projects, especially those that are donor-funded. The Committee is concerned about the low absorption of development projects. Often, the Annual Estimates incorporates the counterpart funding for donor-financed projects at the beginning of the financial year only for the amounts to be adjusted later in the Supplementary Budget."
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