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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. We are keen to see our counties up their game in terms of the usage of money. A few weeks ago, I read in the newspapers that there is a lot of misuse of petty cash and unnecessary withdrawal of monies in some counties. That is blatant misuse of taxpayers money. I agree with Hon. Junet Mohamed when he says that devolution is one of the best things that has ever happened in this country. The precedent set when we introduced devolution... To date, we have counties that have not got it right in terms of putting structures in place that will guide the use of money. Somebody insinuated that while we are devolving funds and resources, we have also devolved a lot of corruption, bureaucracy and misuse of public resources. We are now 11 years down the devolution line. It is up to our governors to set up good structures in the counties. The pioneer governors had a lot of challenges in terms of setting up structures. Now that many counties are experiencing their second governors, it is the right time to ensure that we get it right. We need to see efficiency and good use of money and public resources. There is a common saying that even the NG-CDF money that we are talking about is more visible than the money that is devolved to the counties. It is not too late for our counties to get it right. I would like to support this Motion but, at the same time, say that we want to see nice structures, efficiency and good use of public resources."
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