NEWLY elected MPs to be sworn in tomorrow have 40 days to set up their Constituency Development Fund committees.
According to the amended CDF Act 2013, the MPs should convene open public meetings of registered voters in their constituencies in each of the elective wards within the first 40 days after the swearing in ceremony. Residents within the wards shall elect five persons whose names shall be forwarded to the constituency fund account manager.
"Upon receiving the names from all the wards in the constituency, the MP in consultation with the fund account manager and the sub county administrator for the constituency shall appoint eight persons to the committee taking into account the geographical diversity with the constituency," said a notice by the CDF board yesterday.
Such appointment should also consider issues such as communal, religious, social and cultural interests in the constituency and the requirements of gender, youth and representation of persons with disability.
The Act stipulates that the committee shall comprise of three men and three women with one man and one woman being a youth between 18 and 35 years. The board shall also include one person with disability.
The amended Act has also made it mandatory that the names of the CDF committee be published in the Kenya Gazette.
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