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"content": "Thank you, very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to also support the report by the Committee on the Division of Revenue Bill. I am, however, tied in between giving more money to the counties, just to give governors more money to misappropriate. I am tied in between sending more money to expect better hospitals, roads, and ECDEs, only for the governors to divert those funds, and to have things that look like handout kinds of projects. I am tied in between giving more money to the counties, just like all the other Senators would want to give more money to the counties, to have more money in the emergency funds for the county governments, while our people are suffering floods, and landslides, fires, accidents, and all that where the money for emergency funds is diverted right, left and center. I am tied in between sending more money to the counties to pay the pending bills, only for some governors to refuse to pay. Finally, I am still tied in between sending these monies to the counties, while the same governors refused to appear before the committees to account for how they have used these monies. With that, as much as we want to vote for more money to the counties, we should call upon two committees, that is the County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee (CPIC) and the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC), to as well assist the Senators who pass this kind of legislation, or who support this kind of Revenue Bill, to do their oversight. They should not at any time become an impediment when it comes to oversight of these funds. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as much as I am saying that I am tied in between, I know sending monies to the counties is one thing and oversight of the same amount is another. I will support this report by this Committee to make sure that we send more money to the counties, that is Kshs415 billion, that is about Kshs24 billion more than what the National Assembly had suggested which I call a suggestion. The Members of Parliament in their NG-CDF, have increased their monies that go to CDF. We should also increase more monies to go to the counties. As do so we ask those county assemblies that are mandated to keep check of these governors, that they at least help this Senate to oversight those monies. If I give you an example, the other day as I send my condolences to the families of Mai Mahiu residents, those who lost so many of their loved ones through the flooding. The two counties, that is Kiambu and Nakuru have emergency funds, but when we ask the governors, they only make noise about the national Government, saying that it has not sent disaster money. As an example, Kiambu County Emergency Fund Act- “The County Assembly of Kiambu should appropriate 0.5 per cent of the whole budget of Kiambu County.” The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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