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    "content": "As of today, the cumulative amount of monies that have gone to counties is beyond the Budget of this year. We are beyond the Ksh3 trillion! Those things need to be looked at even if you are doing an issue with social audit. When there are difficulties in certain counties and they cannot perform certain functions properly, the Constitution allows interventions. The Government needs to look out for this because most of the counties where interventions are required are not getting help. I want to strongly believe that there are counties that need to be supported so that we can move this country forward. There are counties that are doing badly. In terms of the Budget, we are strictly following a budget process as Parliament. Look at what goes on in terms of the budget cycle in the counties. There is a problem! We are guided here and between February and May, there are processes. We have the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) that runs from February, and which guides in terms of what is supposed to be looked into by every department. What happens in the counties? Maybe, this is missing and that is where many counties are failing. Why do we say that local authorities were collecting more revenue than county governments? This needs to be checked so that we can know the exact reason why it is happening. Beyond this, we have targets the Government is setting. We keep talking about food, which I also talked about when I was contributing to the Finance Bill. Looking at the issue of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), how are we supposed to achieve them? The 80 per cent of the goals are functions of counties and yet, they do not get equitable share of resources towards those functions. So, an audit is required and I think this is the best time to do it when we have a new Government in place. It will know where to place the resources which counties need. Thank you."
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