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    "id": 1012543,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I Support this Bill and also commend the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, Hon. Kanini Kega, for moving fast and ensuring that we do not have the delay that we had in the Senate on this particular Bill. Hon. Speaker, I would like to comment more so on the usage of the money that we approve in this House that goes to county governments. As my brother, Hon. Wamalwa, the hopefully incoming governor of Trans Nzoia stated, what we are seeing out there is work by the NG-CDF. When you walk around, you find stalled structures that were either started by previous regimes, but not completed and structures that would give our people services and have devolution felt out there. In my own constituency, I have more than five dispensaries that today would be of great help to my people, but they are stalled simply because they were started by the previous regime and the current regime cannot work on them. It is high time that even as the Senate approves these funds to counties, they should follow them up and ensure there is value for what we are giving to the counties. We again found cases where governors are using resources to punish MCAs’ constituencies and wards that are not supporting them. This is disturbing, that five years can lapse without any service given to a particular ward simply because a certain governor is not in good terms with the MCA there. We would also want to highlight the fact that the fuel levy money that goes to counties is not being felt. We are not hearing of any money getting back to the National Treasury on this, and we can only assume that this money is being misused. What we see out there is work by KeRRA and KURA, but rarely are we coming across roads that are being done by county governments. It is high time we encouraged them to buy equipment so that they can be maintaining the rural roads instead of money going to them directly. It is also disheartening to see transferred functions, especially with the Nairobi Metropolitan Services that is doing a very good job, experiencing wrangles emanating from resources. The Nairobi Metropolitan Services that falls under our Committee had to come to us crying. The presentation they made was full of frustrations despite the good work they are doing. It is high time we streamlined some of these processes and ensure that governors do not transfer services and at the same time hold onto the implementation of those services. It is high time that even as we have this County Allocation of Revenue Bill process taking much longer as it did in the Senate, to have budgetary provisions so that some services within counties do not suffer. It is unfortunate that most of our brothers, sisters and MCAs in the counties have gone without salaries for three months. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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