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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ali Roba",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply. I want to take this opportunity to thank all our colleagues such as Sen. Mungatana, who actually was more diligent than his own Governor in following up these issues as we were trying to get this request tidied up. The request came to us from the Council of Governors (CoG). This in itself is a milestone achievement for the Senate. The CoG made a request that these five counties are affected on average for about eight years of implementing building county headquarters. This happened because they relied on being sponsored by the national Government while other county governments opted to finance the construction of the county headquarters themselves. Since they were depending on funds inflow from the national Government, the resultant impact of that was that the projects have ended up stalling. The request then was if the Senate could help them in engaging the critical stakeholders such as the National Treasury, the Ministry of Public Works - who are supervising the projects - as well as the Inter-Governmental Relations Technical Committee to smoothly find a way these projects can be handed over to them. The money that was promised by the national Government in form of supplement for construction of county headquarters should be transferred to them by way of conditional grants. Then, if there are gaps, since a lot of time has lapsed and, definitely, there is bound to be some variation, these county governments take full responsibility to bridge the gaps that are going to come up. They also need to take full responsibility for the accountability of whatever monies that are going to be transferred to them by way of conditional grants. We managed to engage these stakeholders very successfully. I want to thank the immediate former Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Economic Planning, Prof. Ndung’u, who was extremely receptive to the idea. The engagement took a little bit of time, but eventually, we managed to have consensus with all the stakeholders. We managed to get that project transfer successfully to the five county governments, which are, Tharaka-Nithi, Isiolo, Tana River, Lamu and Nyandarua. Madam Temporary Speaker, as at the time of the handing over, initially, the county governments were promised Kshs1.815 billion for these projects. However, the national Government only managed to release Kshs837 million to these counties, leaving a balance of Kshs977 million unreleased. Now, during the process of engagement, we managed to convince the National Treasury to include Kshs454 million in the two subsequent County Additional Allocation The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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