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    "id": 1407789,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "The CoB appeared before County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee and we directed her to prioritize the automation of our office. It has not been done. I am told because she has now realized there are some monkey games that go on between governors and her officers, she has now decided to go through her files herself. This has made our counties to continue suffering. Approvals are being delayed. We have raised an issue of diversion of funds, that there is a budget, she has a copy of the budget. Counties make requisitions to her. She looks at the requisitions and approves them. However, when counties go home, they introduce and pay new things. The CoB is unable to resolve this problem. I expect that this House must summon the CoB to appear in this House. We have a Committee of the Whole House, so that some of these issues affecting our office and counties can be addressed, particularly the problem of diversion of funds, which ends up being corruption. We should also ask ourselves one important question. Why are our counties not able to meet targets on own source revenue? Counties were established, not just to be avenues for sharing the national cake, but also as economic units to generate their own money. When the national Government delays to send money, the counties are paralysed because they are over dependent on the money from the national Government. They have many sources of own source revenue, which either deliberately they have refused to maximize on that, or they are sleeping on the job. It saddens that the defunct local authorities were making more money than the county government now. Then you ask yourself, why? We are in an era of technology. They have more resources than the defunct local authorities, but they are not able to raise money to support their own source revenue. The issue of own source revenue in our counties is another conversation that this House must have because counties have now turned into employment bureaus and corruption scenes when we have avenues for own source revenue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the issue of delayed disbursement of funds. Next week, I will be bringing a Motion on that. I do not understand why we pass the disbursement schedule every year in this House, indicating that monies will be sent to counties on the 15th day of every month. Then, someone junior in the National Treasury decides to disregard all that and sends money to the counties when he feels, like three months later or four months later. Then, why do we sit here to pass the disbursement schedule?"
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