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    "id": 1491382,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kathuri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13590,
        "legal_name": "Murungi Kathuri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, also for this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. From the onset, what the Bill is proposing to do is to give county assemblies the autonomy as it has been stated by my colleagues. We are proposing to amend the county public finance laws so that we can have county assemblies access their money directly from the National Treasury. We are trying to create what we are calling a County Assembly Fund in every county assembly. Then the clerk who is the administrator of the county assembly, or the account holder becomes the administrator of this fund. Currently, when the county assemblies want to requisition money, they go through the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) Finance. Most of the counties have problems, right from the governors themselves, the deputy governors and the county assemblies. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when a county assembly is trying to access money so that they can do their oversight and work out their programmes, they must go and kneel to the CECM 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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