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    "id": 1491209,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1491209/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
        "slug": "sifuna-edwin-watenya"
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    "content": "form that the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) responsible for Finance and Economic Planning must sign for you as a Clerk or the leadership of the Assembly to be able to access your funds. We have been told even here in Nairobi City County by our own MCAs that the Form C has been used very punitively by the Executive, where you have to run around the entire country, even the world, looking for the signature of the CECM. You will be told today he is unwell, tomorrow he has travelled, tomorrow he is attending to a certain conference and that, he will not be able to come back to the county until a certain time. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you are the people to oversight the Executive, you cannot be at the whims of the Executive when your operations money, even money for the salaries of the MCAs is at the whims of the Executive So, I am proud and sure when we all shall go back to the counties, we will have something to report to the county assemblies. That these are things that we have done in order to enhance their capacity to oversight the county executive. The situation as it is right now is that county assemblies are extremely constrained in their oversight responsibilities because of the current obtaining situation. It is why we have county executives. I do not want to mention names because people will start crying that want to even control the leadership of the Assembly. That if you do not co-toe to the wishes of the Governor in your Assembly, he can as well decide that this Assembly will run to a halt. All your activities will ground to a halt. I have cases where the county governor insists on even designating who is the Majority Leader, the whip, who is in the leadership or the Speaker of the House. If you are not towing to his life, he makes sure that life is extremely difficult for you. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have been to county governments and county assemblies. Even this drinking water that we find plenty here at the Senate, you are told we do not have a budget to buy water, for the Members, forget about even salaries and parks. If you just look at the way the Assembly is operating, you know that they have been put on a very short leash by the Governor. If you are not playing ball, you will not get those resources. For me, it is a day of pride. That we can pass legislation that frees the assemblies across the country to properly function, especially in their supervisory roles. If I can go to the specific provisions of the proposals in this particular Bill, I will start by Section 34 where we are transferring the County Assembly Fund from the County Assembly Services Act by deleting it from there and entrenching it in the Public Finance Management Act. If you read the language of the new section--- I will read it so that you see the difference and the distinction. The Bill provides for the establishment under Section 109(a) of the County Assembly Fund, and it is to be in the Public Finance Management Act. It starts at subsection (2) by saying-"
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