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Citizen’s Constituency Development Fund Report Card for Othaya Constituency
December 2008
National Taxpayers Association

  1. Introduction
    • This Citizen Report Card (CRC) has been researched and published by the National Taxpayers Association (NTA) to sensitize citizens, elected officials, and civil society organisations on the management of devolved funds, and the provision of district services.
    • The publication has been developed by the NTA Secretariat and Regional NTA staff.
    • NTA is a national, independent, non-partisan organization focused on improving the delivery of services and the management of devolved funds for the benefit of all Kenyans.
    • The NTA is committed to working with the Government of Kenya to improve service delivery at thedistrict level and the management of devolved funds.
    • The NTA assessed all CDF/LATF projects funded in the financial year (FY) 2006-07 in 23 constituencies and 8 municipalities in 8 districts1 across all provinces.
    • This report presents the findings from research in Othaya Constituency, Nyeri South district.

  2. Executive Summary
    • A summary of the main findings from the NTA research in Othaya Constituency are listed in Table 1 below.
    • Project profiles and digital photographs of all CDF projects visited and assessed are listed in Annex 1.
    • The key findings are as follows:
      • Kshs. 8,624,710 of taxpayer’s money has been wasted, due to badly built, complete and incomplete projects 11% of the total CDF funds awarded in FY 2006-07 were on badly implemented projects
      • Kshs. 185,000 of taxpayer’s money is missing and unaccounted for 0.23% of the total CDF funds awarded in FY 2006-07 are missing and unaccounted for

  3. Recommendations for Hon. Mwai Kibaki
    1. Complete all incomplete CDF projects as soon as possible.
    2. Trace and fully account for all missing funds.
    3. Reduce by 100% badly built CDF projects in FY 08-09.
    4. Make available all records of CDF projects, plus Bills of Quantities.


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