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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "The Controller of Budget (CoB) is another important constitutional entity. In Paragraph 44 on page 12, the CoB says that “a little more needed to be done for the regulations to work efficiently”. Remember, it is the CoB that shall authorize withdrawals from this Fund and they are telling us that this thing is not ready for implementation. We are going to run into headwinds when it comes to implementation and drawing of money from this Fund. Let us consider another critical stakeholder; the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). Sen. Faki rightly sought the views of the CBK on those regulations. The CBK expressed concern on the issue of comingling of funds. They are saying that the regulations are not explicit as to where the funds shall be deposited. Of course, the regulation says that this money shall be sent to counties as conditional grants the same way we have conditional grants under the DORA and the CARA. Remember, the county technical committee will be chaired by the county administrator and not the county Government and we are going to have conflicts. There is no way counties will receive money. The CECM Finance will receive money and pass it to the county technical committee headed by the county commissioner. We are going to have conflicts. All the elected leaders are represented in that County Technical Committee. The Governor is there through the CECM for finance, the ward representatives are there, the Member of Parliament is there through the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF). It is only the Senator who is approving the policy and regulations that has absolutely no role to play in those structures. I think that needs to be corrected. Let us look at another stakeholder – the Council of Governors (CoG). On page 11 paragraph 38, they have said – “halt the regulations” because they are concerned about a few things. If the CRA, the Controller of Budget (CoB) the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and the CoG have told us there is something wrong that needs to be looked at before this regulation should come into force, I think we should listen to them. The National Treasury itself has admitted that there could be some imperfections which will be corrected in six months. Why the rush? Why can we not get the right regulations? We are not opposing or debating the policy which is already adopted by the House. As I started my debate, I said I am happy that the policy has expanded from 14 to 34 counties. As a result, my people are beneficiaries. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you go to places such as Suba South you have little islands such as Kiwa which no one ever goes to. In fact, politicians visit it once in five years just to get the votes and disappear. As a result of that second marginalization generation policy, the people of Malongo, Kitawa, Uterere, Nyamrisra, Rangwa and all those areas in Suba South do not even sound like areas that are in Luo Land because they have been neglected for long. I am happy with the second policy. What Members should be concerned about – which is probably why Sen. Sakaja was landing into trouble – is that this debate is not about the policy. The policy has already been adopted and is cast in stone."
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