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    "id": 1106617,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Why is the County Commissioner a chairperson? This is unacceptable. In fact, this should be our window as Senators to be more relevant and participatory in project implementation at the county level. Instead of bringing these officers, the NG-CDF manager, the chairperson of the NG-CDF, we have members of staff who sit in our offices at the county. They can be the nominees to sit at the administrative structure of this fund at the county level. You remember we tried to amend the Roads Fund Regulations. We discussed it on this Floor as Senators and we said there was some injustice because in the Roads Fund the Member of Parliament in the constituency nominates four people from the constituency office. So, why are we behaving as if, as Senators we do not have a Senate county office? We have managers who run our offices. We have staff who are employed there. Why are we allowing Members of the National Assembly to take over functions that the court has made a pronouncement that they are a preserve of the county government? This is a contradiction of our Constitution of 2010. I think we should not mince words. Let us call a spade a spade. These regulations are going to be declared again unconstitutional by the High Court if we if we pass them the way they are. Look at the contradiction. The National Government wants to tell us through these regulations that they will send four technical officers from Ministries relevant to the funding priorities. We have Ministries at the county level. Our CEC’s are Ministers. Why are we allowing people from the National Government to come and start implementing projects from Ministries that are already existing at the county level? Does it make any sense? The CEC, Health is the Minister for Health at the county level. How do you allow the National Government to pick technical officers from the Ministry of Health in Nairobi and then send them to the 47 counties? We are being told here that this fund is already spending Kshs500,000 on administrative expenses. It does not make sense. In fact, if there is a window that should now make Senators with passion, the fund that should help us undertake our oversight duties at the county level, it is this one. However, this cannot happen if you leave the structure to be the way it is."
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