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    "content": "Government, Committee on Implementation and Committee on Delegated Legislation carry the core of our activities. The purpose of the CPAIC was to provide us with an opportunity to interrogate and give oversight to the counties on how they use their resources. I am afraid to say that in the last three years, we have done very well in tackling this issue. There has been wanton expenditure of resources in the counties that cannot be checked. We have not been very effective in checking the over-expenditure. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am not saying that the CPAIC has not done anything. They have done an exemplary job in trying to manage and hold the county governments to account. It is unfortunate that the governors found a way through the courts in which they have stopped and hampered the activities of this important Committee. One of the things that sadden me is that we have not felt devolution trickle- down to the people it was supposed to serve. I had expected to see devolution have a tickle effect in my village in Otanchi. I expected to see dispensaries, good schools, an Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) centre built there and so much more. Unfortunately, we have not seen the trickledown effect of devolution as is required by the Constitution. Therefore, it behooves us in this Senate through these Committees, particularly the Devolved Government Committee to see how we can have this trickle-down effect of devolution felt by our people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are many issues we could speak which we feel that these committees should handle. For example, we are now faced with a Government of scandals. In fact, one person has said it is not a Government of scandals or a country of scandals; it is actually a scandalous country. I had expected to see issues about the Eurobond and the National Youth Service (NYS) where money was spent recklessly and cannot be accounted for yet we are seeing the people who are supposed to be responsible are now being acquitted. They are being left to go scot-free without the benefit of being given due diligence by going to the court system yet we know that these are Government funds which are missing and we do not know how we will be able to explain this to the exchequer. These are issues I feel that these committees particularly the Committee on Delegated Legislation and Implementation should be able to look at because this House has passed very wise decisions in the past which have not been effected by the respective governments whether at the county level or at the national level. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for example, instead of devolving functions to the county government particularly in the field of health, we find that these are now being brought to the national Government. I wonder why the national Government should be buying health equipment for county governments instead of leaving them to deal with the issue of health services because we know they have been devolved. There are many issues that these committees should be looking at in this Session, particularly the transfer of assets. It worries that three years down the line, we have not yet managed. The Transition Authority has not managed to come up with an effective inventory of assets in all counties in order to have these assets transferred. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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