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    "id": 1129442,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Nyandarua from functioning, then there is a problem. It could be the Governor is uncomfortable and thinks that it is a threat if the County Assembly functions. We really need to know why even the property that is supposed to be used exclusively by the County Assembly Speaker is being directed otherwise. This Petition is important and we need recommendation at the end. The County Assemblies should be given full autonomy. The danger to the county assembly that we have today is the county executive. This is because they lack the financial autonomy. This has continued to be a threat in the independence and functionality of our county assemblies. The county assemblies just like the Senate and they play the primary oversight role at the lowest level. We are aware that county governments and governors are normally not comfortable with independent and functional county assemblies. I can see quite a number of the Members the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. They should propose to us how we can make county assemblies get financial autonomy, such that they have their own vote at the National Treasury. When the budget is approved by the Controller of Budget (CoB), they should access their accounts and their money from the National Treasury such that they do not need to depend on the CECM of finance, or the goodwill of the governor. Even in my county, the county assembly has been complaining that the county government has ensured that they allocate only county assembly recurrent funds as opposed to developmental funds. That is why when you go to Nandi County Assembly; the Chamber is yet to be complete. The county assembly is complaining that the county governor normally refuses through the county CECM of Finance to approve and allow the development funds to go to the county assembly. To ensure that we protect the county assemblies and ensure they maintain independence and functionality, we must ensure that there is independence or financial autonomy so that they can do their job without interference and the threats of the county government. That is what we are seeing in Nyandarua County Government where the County Executive and the County Assembly are fighting each other. Finally, the County Assembly and the County Executive should know that the ultimate beneficiary of all this should be the common mwananchi, the mama mboga, and the bodaboda riders. Those people who voted us into office should be ultimate and precise beneficiaries so that we do not see that fight. We hoped this second generation of devolution would not give us these teething problems. I hope the area Senator, Sen. Mwangi, will a get a chance to tell this House what is really happening on the ground. It is good that our brother, Sen. Mwangi, is in the House today. I hope he will get a chance in the Committee and before the House, to give us the way forward. We need those things to stop. I hope the Committee, led by Sen. M. Kajwang, will give us the direction on this matter."
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