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    "id": 1491402,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "this provision that before withdrawing money, it must be approved by the CoB. County assemblies should stop opening many bank accounts. I am happy that the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations is here. We challenge governors who appear before us after looking at their financial statements. For example, Bungoma County had over 300 commercial bank accounts. Nandi County has over 500 commercial bank accounts, apart from CRF, special purpose accounts, and facility improvement accounts under the Facilities Improvement Financing Act. Therefore, we want to caution county assemblies. As we give them financial autonomy, we want them to maintain one County Assembly Fund each at the CBK. Fourthly, I disagree with the proposal on proper maintenance of buildings. I can see you have given functionality and utilisation of the Fund. One of them is defraying administrative expenses which I agree with. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, county assemblies appear before we Members of the County Public Accounts Committee for auditing. The business of county assemblies and Parliament is recurrent. How you gauge functionality of a county assembly is through committee meetings, plenary, tabling of reports, Motions, Bills, and any other oversight role that is allocated by the law. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with you. The only challenge is that there are counties that have not completed their county chambers, including my own Nandi. We went to Isiolo and found that the project had stalled. The same case applies to a number of county assemblies. In Narok, I am told the county executive is squatting on the county assembly land. They also need to put their assets in order. We do not want Narok County Executive to be squatting on the County Assembly premises. We need them to have a valuation roll that ensure that the assets of the County Assembly are well captured."
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