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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Another threat to devolution is uncollected land rates, rent properties and utility bills, which is lumped together by the county executives’ failure to collect their local revenue. The non-collection of these items and failure to collect local revenue leads to many things, including pending bills included. It is something that every county could not explain. I can report that no county was able to collect local revenue they had proposed or budgeted to collect. The explanations they were giving looked like they were hiding in small boardrooms and recycling the same kind of explanation; that election activities made it impossible for them to achieve. There are many things we observed as a Committee that require urgent correction. One of the things we found out as a Committee is that no county was able to comply with the requirement that the recurrent expenditure be pigeon-holed to a certain percentage. The kind of reasons being given - I do not know whether they were taking us or the Auditor-General for fools - they would tell you that they have many members of staff and many activities for which they should pay. However, you notice that they continued recruiting. If you have many members of staff and you are already not complying with the law because of them, what sense does it make for you to recruit more? Why do they not do skills alignment and audit right-sizing and then they have a very effective right size of staff, well-motivated who are able to deliver on the mandate of those county governments? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is need to link the enforcement of some of this non-compliance to the office of the Controller of Budget (CoB) so that, that office is able to also help in enforcing compliance by ensuring that counties that do not comply with some of these requirements have to do an explanation to the CoB, the Senate or National Assembly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I say this because the requirement that a certain percentage of the budget should be recurrent is something known to the office of the CoB. When another budget is done that is allowing for additional recruitment, that should not be allowed. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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