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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
"speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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"content": " Sen. Munyi Mundigi, proceed."
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"content": "Asante, Bw. Spika, naunga mkono Mswada wa kuongeza kaunti pesa. Kuna kaunti 47 nchini na nashukuru Maseneta waliozungumza na Wabunge wa Bunge la Taifa. Pesa zilizotengwa kwa magatuzi zimeongezwa kutoka mwaka jana na shilingi bilioni 15. Mwaka wa fedha unaoisha Kaunti ya Embu ilipata Shilingi billion 5.3. Kwanzia mwezi wa saba mwaka huu, Kaunti ya Embu itapokea Shilingi bilioni 5.4. Mswada huu ukipita tutakuwa tumeongezea Kaunti ya Embu Shilingi milioni 200. Pesa hizi hazitoshi lakini naunga mkono. Naomba gavana wa Kaunti ya Embu aangalie ushuru anaotoza kwenye kaunti ili aongeze pesa hizi. Kuna fedha zingine zinatarajiwa kutoka nje kama msaada ili tupunguze madeni kwenye kaunti. Kaunti ya Embu iko na wage bill ambayo iko juu. Pia pending bills ziko juu. Kaunti ya Embu itasaidika wakati gavana atafanya kazi vizuri na Members of County Assembly (MCAs) ili pesa itoshee mahitaji ya Kaunti ya Embu. Gavana wa Kaunti ya Embu inafaa atilie mkazo sekta za kilimo, afya na ujenzi wa barabara. Mazao ya wakulima wa kaunti isiwe na shida ili economy ya kaunti ya Embu ibadilike. Hapo mbeleni tulikuwa na shida lakini sasa naomba gavana afanye kazi ambayo inafaa. Kaunti ya Embu imeteseka kwa miaka kumi lakini kwa miaka tano ya gavana aliyechaguliwa tumeanza kuona mabadiliko. Naomba gavana ajikakamue kwa miaka iliyobaki, ili kaunti iwe kwenye mstari wa kwanza. Miaka itakayokuja tunataka economy ya Embu ibadilike. Ningependa kusisitiza kuwa, miaka inayokuja isiwe ni wabunge wa Bunge la Kitaifa wanatuamurisha vile tunafaa kufanya kazi. Wabunge hawa wanafaa waelewe kuwa kazi ya Maseneta ni kuangalia vile magavana wanafanya kazi. Hii si kazi yao. Naunga mkono. Asante, Bw. Spika."
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"content": " Sen. Oledama, proceed."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. That is very interesting. You have never called me that name, but I will take it. I rise to support the County Allocation of Revenue Bill for the following reasons. I am happy that the money has finally been distributed to the counties. However, I am not happy with the amounts allocated to counties. The national Government keeps clawing back on devolution and allocating billions of shillings to Ministries yet county governments, where most of the population reside, are given peanuts. I was looking at the numbers. Although someone will clap and say Narok County has been given an additional allocation of Kshs171 million and the ceilings for the assemblies have been raised by Kshs1.4 million. What is that? We require the ceilings for the county assemblies to be raised so that they can oversee counties. With the little money allocated to the county governments, we need to ensure the fiducial responsibility of the accounting officers. This is where we are missing the point. We can realign our The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "small existing resources, bring in accountability and change how things are done in county governments. We have over borrowed as a country. This Senate fought a bit and got an additional Kshs9 billion, which we could have gotten. I never voted for the Division of Revenue Bill because I felt like the little money that was given was not enough. When you see a Member of the National Assembly clapping hands and saying that they have already been allocated an additional Kshs20 million to carry out functions that the county government should carry out, you start questioning whether we understand our role. I long for the day when we will all come of age and know that Parliament's role is to legislate, not implement projects. When you see Members of the National Assembly running around, even county assemblies tomorrow will say they need a kitty. These are the things we have been fighting about. We need to think about the future generation. The time to think about this is now. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can see my time is over."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
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"content": " Sen. Wamatinga, proceed."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support. I will start by commending the Mediation Committee for the job well done. They came to a compromise to increase the money allocated to county governments. I want to add my voice to the fact that we need more allocation to county governments. It must be clear to everybody that the only way the Government can raise more resources and revenue is through taxation. It is painful to see that some of the money allocated to county governments is utilized inappropriately. This year, Nyeri County will receive an additional Kshs500 million. It is my prayer that our governor will ensure that the deteriorating health services in Nyeri County are improved. I urge the governors to prioritize settling the pending bills when they receive the allocation. Non-payment is hurting Kenyans and, more specifically, killing small enterprises. It is high time we started discussing how to streamline our own-source revenue. We were impressed by the Governor of Murang'a. I would like to commend the Senator for working closely and in collaboration with his governor to ensure they hit the Kshs1 billion mark in terms of own-resource revenue. It is not good enough to collect resources and allocate more resources. We must ensure that the allocated resources are used appropriately to benefit this country's citizens. Mr. Speaker, Sir, because of our enhanced role through the oversight fund, it is time that we, as Senators, become proactive to ensure that we arrest situations before we lose money. It is known to everybody that Senators have been reduced to morticians. We are given audited accounts to see the situation as it was. It is important that moving forward, we play a proactive role to ensure money is not lost and arrest situations of leakages. Unless we do this, the citizens of this country will continue to complain about heavy taxation because taxation without seeing the use of the money will continue burdening Kenyans. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "As I sit down, I commend the Senate for their role and, more importantly, the committees for the Bill they have brought before this House. We must be more visible and present in our counties, so that the role of this House can be felt."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
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"content": " Sen. Osotsi, proceed."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. We worked so hard to ensure our counties get Kshs400 billion. We are now distributing those monies to our counties. This Bill shows that my county is getting an additional Kshs190 million. I urge the governor and his people to prioritize key areas. Number one is the Early Childhood Development Centres, where we face the challenges of paying salaries. There are many issues with vocational training centres, and many are almost collapsing. We would like to see more money being sent to our counties. As the country is going through the debate of how to allocate more money to the counties, a few are talking about one man, one shilling one vote. We need a conversation on how to protect small counties such as Vihiga, Elgeyo, Marakwet, Lamu and the others. We need to start thinking of how we will make these counties productive in our formula. That is a debate that some of us who are representing those counties will be coming up with. Therefore, for now, the money that we send to our counties must be used very well. As another Senator said, as the Senate, we need to be very proactive on oversighting our various counties to ensure that we do not act as morticians, but we can oversight the money in our counties. The biggest problem is the late disbursement of funds. I agree with the Senators who had spoken earlier that this is a problem that we need to deal with as a Senate. Very soon, we will be passing the Cash Disbursement Schedule that has clear dates. How I would wish that in that Disbursement Schedule, we need to state very clearly that whenever there is a delay in disbursing funds to the counties, the National Treasury owes us an obligation of full disclosure of why there is a delay. The situation now is that when there is a delay, no one talks to us and the counties and they have to perpetually keep on waiting. This House deserves to get a disclosure from the National Treasury whenever there is a delay in disbursing funds to our counties. I will be moving a Motion in that regard so that when there is a delay, the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary---"
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