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    "id": 1123852,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am also quite intrigued by the proposal to change this County Leaders Forum (CLF), from what the Senator for Nandi County – now the Governor – had in mind. You are bringing elected leaders together. The same people who elect a Senator and a Women Representative elect a governor. You are bringing Members of the National Assembly all together to sit down. I love the fact that the governor, who is the boss of the county government, is given the mantle to become the chair. Since the Senate is the one who pushes money to the county, then he becomes the vice-chair. There is absolutely no reason as to why this Annual Development Plan (ADP) should end up as just something drafted on paper. Many of these County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) end up either not being fulfilled or the ADPs not being met because of various issues. For example, let us excise out a section of the CIDP and make it an ADP and say that Narok County will build three abattoirs, five markets and feeder roads. When I am here as a Senator, my role will be to ensure that during the Division of Revenue, I fight for more money to go to the County. I will then have more reason to even support governors to get the Kshs70 billion more that they want; because I know in that CLF where we sat, we agreed that X number of roads will be built this time and it will consume KshsX. Earlier on, we were commenting on a Report by the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. I believe agriculture is what should propel this country into a true middle income country but they are getting only 3.7 per cent of the budget. This is a devolved function. Therefore, if this money is sent to county governments, county government ought to increase money to promote agriculture. Not 3.4 per cent. What will 3.4 per cent help? Will it take care of administrative cost, imaginary benchmarking trips or will it be able to invest into the farmers and support them to develop? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I fully support these amendments and hope that Governors will see this as another added advantage of us working together. We should work together and not see each other as enemies. We should be working towards to develop the interests of our people. One of my pet peeves over the last five years has been going through the Auditor- General’s report. I support the amendments being brought not to be looking mostly on what kind of opinion you get when an audit is done. The kind of opinion you get right now is based on your documentation. I support the idea that now the Auditor-General will be auditing those functions or the performance of that county and recommend on how they can improve on those functions on their ADPs. It will make sense. Right now, any clever Governor can sit with the auditors and put all their paperwork together. However, are the people who elected you, getting the services they voted for you to go and fight for? Some of us are paid from their salaries. In fact, all public servants are paid by their taxes."
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