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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": "to have people from Nairobi, who simply do some paper work and access money, taking the money, yet the people doing the actual work are the village boys who are trained in our various technical training institutes down there. I suggest to the Committee that it considers this as we approve these NG-CDF Committees for the various constituencies. If money is down there and the PMC can get a local person who is good at the work approved by the community, let him do the work and let money be given to him in phases instead of having this idea of requiring people who have money from wherever to do it. That is why the money is there. That way, the money will be in the constituency and it will work because the works will be done by people who are accountable. Those, among other changes, are the things I request the National Assembly Select Committee, under the chairmanship of the new Deputy Whip of the Majority Party, to deliberately think through. When we sat in the National Assembly Select Committee on NG-CDF, most of these administrative circulars and bottlenecks you now see being pushed around were not there. I think there will be need for a meeting, particularly of the Committee with the CEO, whose re- appointment we secured because he knew work. Today you do not know whether the NG-CDF Act is the law governing the administration of this Fund or not. There is the issue of payment of members of the Constituency Oversight Committee (COC). We cannot pay them to date because of an error we had in the Regulations. Hon. Chair, I sat in the Committee when we discussed the Regulations. We had said that one per cent of the NG- CDF allocation should go to the COC. We were initially proposing that the entire monitoring and evaluation money should go to the COC. We agreed it would be one per cent of the NG-CDF allocation or a third of the monitoring and evaluation money. When the regulations were published, it came out as one per cent of money allocated to monitoring and evaluation. The only committee in which the Member of Parliament sits, the COC, cannot do work at all. It cannot do work. I have professional people like educationists and people who retired, including former commissioners of TSC, working with me as members of the COC. This is the only committee – the only link I have as an MP. There is no pay. What I am being told is that there is Kshs30,000 for a whole year. Really? These are things which the Select Committee should pick up. I am thinking there is time for the Committee to re-evaluate the entire law on the NG-CDF on such matters. I would be proposing, for instance, that we have a situation where we can take the entire monitoring and evaluation money to the COC, if even a third of money allocated to monitoring and evaluation cannot be paid when we are paying other people. There is no monitoring which can be done by members of the COC without the MP. It will be fine if all those changes, thoughts and considerations, in addition to the other many good things they have been doing, are taken up by the National Assembly Select Committee on the Fund. I do not know on what point of order the Chair is rising. I do not know under what format you are paying members of your COC. I remember we agreed in the last Parliament that members of the COC would be paid at rates similar to those of members of the NG-CDF. How do these people oversee the work of the PMC? In as much as you are raising points of order, we send hundreds of millions of shillings to the constituencies when we have no coin to even fuel a car. Who is going to work for the Government? These are people who are duly appointed by an Act of Parliament."
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