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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13598,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Seki Kanar",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this report by the Committee on Finance and Budget chaired by Sen. Ali Roba. I congratulate the committee for the good work they have done. I support the idea that money should go to the counties. We are elected to protect counties at all times. I will touch on two or three areas. It is not enough for us to have money going to the counties. However much we try to support counties to get money, we want to have the funds utilized accordingly. Every county's own source revenue is under-budgeted. They exaggerate revenue collections. Counties put in their budgets approximations or targets of the amounts they intend to collect. The estimation of the amount to be collected is quite high. Unfortunately, they put this amount in their budgets, which results to pending bills. We need to see how counties collect money and put it into their budgets. We should look at areas where counties give unrealistic percentages, particularly on personnel emoluments. When personnel emoluments are budgeted for, it is hard for counties to underpay or fail to pay their staff. We wonder why county governments have pending bills on salaries, even to an extent of having pending bills on statutory deductions. These are issues that the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) should look at seriously. Development is also an area that the county should look at to make sure that at least whatever has been budgeted for is actualised. Otherwise, we have a lot of issues. We will have a lot of problems on development in every county as they put budgets that are not realistic. They say they will need to do several projects yet they are not being done. That is why we have many pending bills at the end of it all. Nonetheless, more importantly, I look at the areas that sometimes are being observed quite well on operations. It is hard to get counties budgeting money on operations. Even when they budget money on operations, it becomes very difficult for them to utilise that money. They put them on different allocations, or even just bring them on issues of---"
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