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    "id": 807258,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Buuri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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        "legal_name": "Mugambi Murwithania Rindikiri",
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    "content": "the money is going. How the money is being used is not being shown. The Senate has the responsibility of setting parameters on how to do oversight and what is expected of each and every county. If you look around all the counties, there are certain essential services that are missing. In some counties you find little things like Early Childhood Development (ECD) classes have no furniture yet you can see there is capacity building funding by donors. There is the first tranche and the second tranche for capacity building funds. The counties are building capacities without even looking at basic facilities. The Senate has the responsibility of not just pushing things to us for support and approval but they also have the responsibility of telling us how those resources are being utilised. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said there are five governors who need to be investigated for corruption. They are not telling us very clear why they are not fighting corruption through the Senate. All they are telling us is that we approve the allocation of money. It is high time this House refuses this marriage of supporting a Senate which is not doing its role of oversight. It is very ironical. In my county, there was a stadium which was tendered for and money paid out. Not until this Government came to power was the construction of the stadium was completed. Were it not for the initiative of our current governor, the money that was paid would have disappeared with the contractors. It is our responsibility, as a House, to ensure that public funds are put into proper use. The dwindling revenue collection in the counties is where the Senate has failed. It is a big question. We do not know where that revenue is going. We do not know who is collecting it. They are now relying on the money that is collected by the national Government and the grants given by donors. It is upon this House to demand that we be given the amount of revenue the counties are collecting so that we can know. Otherwise, given the situation as it is right now, the counties have more unaccounted money than the national Government. In as much as we are supporting this Bill, come the next financial year, we will not blindly support the Senate in terms of revenue allocation unless we are told how the county governments have collected their revenue and how that money is being used. We should also be told about the performance parameters that are going to be used for us to approve this kind of Bill in the next financial year."
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