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    "id": 1259803,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1259803/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "value addition, issues of health, supporting county governments construct county headquarters, issues of industrial centres as proposed by the Kenya Kwanza Government and also some resources to be directed to the informal sector improvements. From my experience and interaction with these kinds of resources in the past, we have realised that we have some gaps and I just want to focus on some of the gaps so that we can help the process. The first one is this: We lack what we call a monitoring and evaluation framework between the two levels of government. The national Government pushes resources to the counties and once the counties get the resources, there is minimal follow-up from the national Government to find out whether the resources are being used for the intended purposes. I want to single out one of those items – support of the county governments to construct their headquarters. I have been in the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the last 11 years. I can assure you that we have been allocating money for those county headquarters for the last five years and, up to now, they have not been completed. We are not aware which levels they are in, what pending balances are there to be paid and what needs to be done to complete them. So, we continue pumping more money to them and I think that is an area we seriously need to look into as the National Assembly, and ensure that we monitor those resources so that we do not just release resources to the county governments and they do not help them. The other issue is that not all the monies go to all the counties. Some money will go to selected counties while others will go to all the counties. It is also important that if money is set for specific activities like climate change, the money should be directed to that activity because some counties have challenges of resources."
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