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    "id": 1169255,
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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": "We have always directed that apart from administrative action, we want to get from the professional body; the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPAC) why somebody has ICPAC number but goes ahead to violate the law. Madam Temporary Speaker, recommendations are varied because devolution is still growing. Going into the future, the reallocation of funds should be treated seriously because that is where funds are lost. By the way, this was common to most counties during Covid-19 period. My Vice-Chairperson has alluded to that. During that period, most counties took advantage and reallocated the funds. When they were asked, they said that it was to allocate the funds for counties. Some of them put it in supplementary budget and ensured that it was approved by the county assembly but others did it the kienyeji way. Human resource continues to be a very big challenge. I do not know how we will handle this. As you transit, there are governors who are serving their final term, new ones coming in while others are being defeated. I have seen governor, hon. Charity Ngilu has decided not to defend her seat again in Kitui County. In such a situation, when a new governor comes in, he comes with his own people. We are turning counties into employment bureaus. In such a situation, when a new governor comes in, he comes with his own people. We are turning counties into employment bureaus. That is why we noticed that in most counties the largest percentage goes to recurrent expenditure. For instance, in Nandi County, out of the Kshs7 billion that they get, they use around Kshs5 billion on recurrent expenditure and a huge chunk of that goes to employment and staff renumeration. That is the biggest challenge that we are facing on the issue of human resource as a whole, for instance, the issues of ethnic balance as provided by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) Act, renumeration, hiring and more so, the issue of casuals and hospital workers. This continues to be a challenge. On the issue of delay in project management, I do not know how we will approach that issue of project management. As you know, there are governors who are serving their second term, and others who might be defeated in their first term. What happens to those projects? It has become a challenge to us as a committee because sometimes the governor brings a project status and after we send the auditor to go and verify, we are told some projects were completed and others were retendered. Those are challenges that allow public money to be lost at some instances. On the issue of project status or project implementation, I do not know how as a Senate we can be creative to ensure we come up with ways on how to handle issues of projects. For instance, in Nandi County, they were 491 projects in the reports of FY2018/2019/2020. Let me use Nandi because that is where I come from. Out of 491 projects, 310 were yet to start, 100 had stalled, and it was only less than five that were complete. How do we ensure that the issue of projects is being followed to ensure there is value for money? By the way as a Committee, we have always been telling governors to finish the projects so that wananchi get value for their money. There is no value when you construct a public project for ten years. If you are constructing an Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) Centre for five or three years, there is no value for that"
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