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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "they failed to provide information on time, they cite capacity challenge as the major reason. By engaging staff members in unprocedural ways, most county governments miss the opportunity to employ the right qualified persons. Irregular remuneration or compensation of staff members without following the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) circulars is also a major issue in the counties. Some members of staff in the counties are over remunerated without following the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) guidelines. Remuneration in most county governments is dependent on your relationship with the Governor. It does not follow any procedure. Madam Deputy Speaker, you will be surprised to learn that some counties do not have established staff policy leading to weak internal controls. Policies such as human resource policy, ICT policy and risk management policy were missing in many county governments. I am happy to report that in the engagements that we have had lately with the counties, there is improvement in the area of policy development which are being approved by the county assemblies. The lack of updated asset register is a major issue in the counties since counties inherited the defunct local authorities which had both fixed and movable assets and liabilities. It has become difficult for counties to have proper asset registers in terms of land, offices and many other fixed assets as well as movable assets such as vehicles. I am happy to report that the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC) has finally come up with the asset registers for the counties. It is now up to the counties to verify, quantify and value them. The assets that the counties have acquired also need to be registered in a particular format. By the time of doing this report, that format had not been agreed on. However, early last year, the National Treasury gave a format for the counties to adopt."
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