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    "id": 1491199,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "operations of her office so that CECMs do not have to physically travel to Nairobi and stay in her office for two or three weeks trying to get access to funding. That is not what this Constitution expects of that office. Madam Temporary Speaker, each financial year, a county government entity holding appropriated money that was withdrawn from the county exchequer account or the County Assembly Service Fund, but has not spent it, shall repay the unspent money to the county exchequer account or the County Assembly Service Fund and prepare. That is the usual basic management of what happens to funds. At the end of every financial year, we also declare what we have not able to spend. Once you declare it, you provide the proper provisions of how you intend to honour those obligations. What is the consequence of this Bill? This Bill intends to provide a channel through which monies allocated to the county assemblies will be disbursed with the intention being to ensure that the county assemblies are able to access the monies when need arises without solely relying on county treasuries. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have explained Sen. Godfrey Osotsi why it is extremely wrong for us to sit here as Senators for the last 12 years and allow our colleagues in the county assemblies to go with a begging bowl to the county treasury accounts. It completely undermines their independene and completely exposes them to be manipulated in how they perform their activities and duties. Madam Temporary Speaker, with this simple amendment to the PFM Act and setting up in place this fund, then our county assemblies will operate better that they normally do. Who will be the administrator? The administrator of the fund shall ensure that payments are made from this fund subject to approvals from the CoB. We are not saying that this is a fund which will be operated outside the confines of the law. We already know that the public finance management and our Constitution grants all powers of public expenditure to the CoB. Once those amendments are filed; they will be contained there. Financial reports will be submitted to the CRA and another copy to the COB. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also important that a copy be sent to the Senate and perhaps the committee that will handle this will send. The clerk of the county assembly may in writing authorize---"
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