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"content": "been doing well. The gossips we hear out there from governors is that they come to CPAIC carrying briefcases. Therefore, we also compromise our responsibility as a House that must oversight the success of devolution. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also urge my Chair, as we have discussed and agreed, that we fast-track the amendment to the Public Finance Management Act, so that county assemblies get their direct disbursement from the National Assembly, so that they are not held at ransom by offensive governors. If county assemblies will discharge their responsibility as primary oversight institutions in the counties, you cannot expect them to do a good job if their salaries and allowances are determined by governors, who give them money as and when they feel that they should give them something. In fact, in many cases, they blackmail them before giving them the money. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must fast-track the amendment and bring it here, so that we free county assemblies from the clutches of greedy governors who think that they own the county and the assembly. It is not right. We can borrow a leaf from our Parliament, which is not dependent on the Executive to run its budget. We have our own budget that is directly disbursed to the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). That is why Parliament summons any office of government to come to account. This morning, in our Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations, we had invited the Inspector-General (IG) of Police. You were the one chairing and when he sent his personal assistant, you sent him away. I salute you for this. You told him that he is the personal assistant to the IG and so, constitutionally, he is not the IG. His level of accountability to the people of Kenya is personal and constitutional; it cannot be delegated. He has already been delegated with authority under the Constitution. The law says that a delegate cannot delegate; delegatus non potest delegare. A delegate must carry his or her responsibilities . Madam Temporary Speaker, this disbursement is important. Just like what one of the Senators said, we have passed this before and put it in our records. It went to the National Treasury and it ignored it. I hope that they will not ignore it this time. The Constitution and the law must have teeth. Whoever does not honour what the laws says, must be held personally accountable, so that these resources go to support our people in the villages who woke up in 2010 and queued, not to vote for any individual, but in the words of the Constitution, “we the people of Kenya, giving ourselves authority and power, we vote for this Constitution to determine our destiny going to the future.” I urge that we pass this. My county is getting a whopping Kshs10.6 billion before we add on conditional grants, which will come through The County Government Grants Bill. Therefore, we will end up with about Kshs12.7 billion, which must be used for health, roads, to support farmers, women and youth. Some counties have youth programmes only in books and nothing goes on. The only youth who are supported are those who are abused by those in authority; putting them in danger by hiring, giving them crude weapons and setting them to fight each other. It is a big shame."
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