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    "id": 1407810,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang’",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, these counties should not resist. I know, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and the National Treasury have a conversation to assist all the counties come up with a revenue Integrated Management System. However, people are saying that we are clawing back on devolution. When you give out a system, it is not clawing back on devolution, you are actually helping them. They are using the IFMIS on expenditure. So, if they are assisted to procure a revenue collection system and they are not paying for it, then we are helping them because, counties across have different systems. We do not even know if some of them get the money or it goes to private persons accounts. We need to push and ensure that the National Treasury helps them have that Integrated Revenue Management Systems so that it is easy and real time. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) will be able to see what they will have collected. Otherwise, when we say that the own source revenue is not enough, we could be losing about 50 per cent of the revenue through other dubious means. Some could even be collecting cash and if you collect cash, that is basically an avenue for leakage. So, it is important that they embrace the system that has been proposed to serve all the counties because, if they are not resisting IFMIS, why should they resist the Integrated Revenue Management System? It will help them ensure there are no leakages. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have checked and seen that my county is among those that receive the least allocation. I have seen the pending bills for Elgeyo Marakwet County is just Kshs2.7 million. It is not bad. However, the Kshs2 million needs to paid because, maybe kuna mama mboga who is owed Kshs50,000 or Kshs100,000. The Governor should pay our people so that they can continue to trade. Most of our pensioners are suffering. Some have even died because the county governments have not remitted pension deductions to the County Pensions Fund (CPF), Laptrust, Lapfund and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). This is very serious. We should not entertain any pending bill on recurrent because, these are deductions from an employee’s payroll. So, why should they not pay what belongs to the employee? Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I wish to support and ask Members to also support. If there are any amendments, we can bring them so that this Motion can be passed next week and ensure that, within the next one and half months or so, the county governments do a supplementary budget to pay these particular pending bills. I support."
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