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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "up with the Warehouse Receipt System Bill in this House. It has not been implemented because the grain in a farmer’s warehouse in Kitale can also be looked as savings. Secondly, on paragraph 51, the President talked of the Senate Fund. Today, I was a bit disappointed to encounter Committees in the Order Paper. One of the things we would have prioritized was the Monitoring and Evaluation Select Committee. I have been in this House and part of these conversations. We came up with regulations and proposed that we get a Kshs1 billion fund. We came up with purposes, administration and structures of the fund and even proposed that we have a Monitoring and Evaluation Committee of the House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I encourage the House Leadership and the Senate Business Committee that the President has shown goodwill. The only reason we did not get this money previously was that the then President did not have a lot of time for the Senate. Let us take advantage of that goodwill and ensure that fund is in place. I will support budget cuts of Kshs300 billion as long as it does not touch devolved governments. We have allocated Kshs370 billion plus conditional grants to the counties. This House must agree to stand together, so that in the next allocation, counties must get more than Kshs370 billion considering that, that is the reason for our existence. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you go back to your counties, you will be asked what you have done over the last five years. You were not building classrooms or police stations, but you can proudly say that the allocation for your county moved from Kshs8 billion to Kshs9 billion during your time in Senate. Let the cuts look at other things that are discretionary, but not allocations to the county governments. However, we have a challenge, ladies and gentlemen. There are very bad manners in county governments. It is time we made sure that our Committees; not just County Public and Investments Committee (CPAIC) and Public Audit Committee (PAC)- -- Each Committee of this House has got an oversight role. If you become lucky to lead a Committee or be a Member of a Committee, please, make sure that if we increase our allocations, they will go towards development rather than fattening the accounts of those who are there. We must also as a House take a common stand to threats to devolution. We have heard the President talk about housing. The national Government job is only housing policy. Provision of social housing is a function of county governments. We have heard the President talk about Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The national Government’s role is just policy. Water provision is the function of county governments. We must unbundle all these Water Services Boards and make sure that counties have got direct access to those resources. We have heard the President talk of fertilizers. The role of the national Government is policy. Execution is the role of county governments."
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