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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. As I was saying before I got distracted, the two issues that we need to work on to ensure that more resources go to the county is to first ensure that the audited accounts are up to date so that even if counties get a minimum of 15 per cent, it should be a year behind. The second issue is on the other functions that have not been fully devolved. We need to have these functions are fully devolved and resources follow because His Excellency the President said it will be within six months. If those functions are not devolved by September this year, the Senate should be able to ask why. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know resources have gone to the counties. However, when you go to the ground in most counties, there is nothing substantial to see like a flagship project simply because of corruption. We devolved corruption from the National Government to the county governments. The oversight committees need to be thorough to ensure that governors use resources so that our people can get value for money considering currently, they are not getting value for money. Most hospitals do not have medicine. There is no fire-fighting equipment in most counties. These are the basics that governors and county assemblies should be able to appropriate in order to ensure counties run properly. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg and ask my colleagues from the other side to support this Bill so that our counties can get money as soon as the next financial year. We want to issue a warning also. For the last four months, our counties have been operating without disbursements from the National Treasury. The National Treasury needs to ensure that if they allocate resources to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), they also need to disburse the same resources to counties so that counties run as the National Government is running. Madam Temporary Speaker, I submit and ask my colleagues to support this Bill so that we can pass it as soon as even tomorrow."
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