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    "id": 1078327,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rachael Nyamai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13374,
        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
        "slug": "richard-ken-chonga-kiti"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I had gone to the point, last evening, where I was talking about the Senate as well as the counties being able to scrutinise the bills that are brought to them so that they do not pay for ghost projects or projects that were never implemented. This was in regard to the fact that they have been ordered to make payments. Truth be told, there are experts who are very good in doing good paper work and presenting them for payment. So, the county governments need to be alive to this fact. A good example is an audit that was done at the Kiambu County Assembly where a bill of Kshs80 million had been presented but after scrutinising it, it ended up being only Kshs19 million. You can see the difference. So, county government authorities need to ensure that they do not pay for ghost projects even as the order has been done. I would like to go to my third point on distribution of projects in all wards. This would have been done very well by the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). I do not know whether it is coming back to life. I really hope that it will because the BBI process was going to give us a solution where the Ward Development Fund was going to be established. This would have ensured that governors in our counties do not put everything in places where there is high population and leave out wards with small population. Similarly, in cases where a governor, as the case may be, 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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