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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "County having money that it is unable to spend. Based on the facts that I am presenting, is that we lack capacity to do so. This is something I call upon the Governor to consider. If you have made one wrong decision on a budget, there is no way again you will repeat that wrong decision. The CoB is highlighting all these things being done wrong. The Senate Committee on Finance and Budget and that of Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, should probably carry out a capacity building to the team that is involved there. That is how we are supposed to assist to ensure that devolution is working. Otherwise, the Kshs5.4 billion is domiciled in the County Revenue Services (CRS) account. If you know how county assemblies work, that money is within the county assembly. As soon as we figure out the issue of the red flags that are being highlighted by the CoB, then we should be able to spend that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I conclude by saying that the issue of employees, both at the national and particularly at county level - we have governors who towards the end of their term, because they know they are leaving, turn employees into permanent and pensionable. This is an issue that is being discussed even now by our Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Performance and Delivery Management. We have to understand that county governments are constituted every five years. It is an executive entity that is influenced by politics, what we need to legislate and cure is to ensure that any person coming to work gets a contract of five years because the same County Government Act gives the governor the power to bring a new team. So, then what happens to the old team? Automatically, in order for us not to have a bloated wage bill, the old team has to either resign or be fired. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in all fairness, Kisii County is trying very hard to work within the constraints of our legal framework on the county governments. I am happy that we are being told Kshs5.3 billion is still domiciled in the CRS account and has not been looted. Other county governments do not have money in their accounts, yet they have nothing to show of it. If the budget has raised a lot of red flags, I would rather have the governor together with the county assembly taking their time to ensure that we are following the processes of procuring or whatever it is that we need to do to spend that money. With these remarks, I do not know which committee these questions and statements will be directed to, but I urge them not to take anything on face value. It is not in good faith to bring a list of 40 people who you claim have been fired illegally, yet they are all Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) or staff members from the old regime. I support that statement in the sense that Kisii County needs capacity building on the financial element, so that the CoB does not keep sending us back to go sit down and do the right thing. Thank you."
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