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    "id": 1462428,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the IGRTC has a lot of work to do as far as assets and liabilities are concerned. This job was started during Kinuthia Wamwangi’s time and it is still stuck. Counties have done verification of assets and liabilities but the IGRTC has not concluded this report. That is why I wonder, if we make them an agency, are they going to move faster than they were moving when they were a technical committee? Costing of functions and transfer of functions; moving too slow. Nowadays we are just bandying figures around what counties should get but we are not quantifying the cost of providing those services. This is something this Agency ought to have done and we hope that they will do it now that we have provided greater clarity. Transfer of functions: Nairobi City County is one example of transfer of functions gone bad. Hundreds of billions of shillings were sank in the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) and today we do not know how that money was used. I recently demanded the Auditor-General’s report on the Presidency be tabled in this House. I was assured that it would be brought here. Madam Temporary Speaker, the expenditure of the NMS was hidden under the Presidency. When we talked to the governor for Nairobi, he told us that he could only account for 30 percent of the revenues we sent. For the other 70 percent, he told us to go to the Presidency. Those are issues that this Agency ought to have resolved. On dispute resolution; we are getting the third impeachment Motion coming to this House and without anticipating the matter, we take judicial notice that there could have been decisions in Meru County. What role has this entity that is mandated to resolve disputes in county governments and between counties and the national Government done to save the people of Meru, from this perennial and seasonal impeachment Motions? Madam Temporary Speaker, we must demand---"
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