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    "id": 1491441,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. From the onset, I was trying to see what the Bill is trying to cure. I am a former Member of the County Assembly (MCA), and I have experienced some of these problems that are supposed to be cured. When you bring autonomy or independence to the county assembly, the problem is not spending. The problem is how they get the money to the assembly's account. When we create the Fund, which, of course, was under the County Assembly Services Act, it has never been utilised before, but if we create the Fund, how will this Fund be getting their money? The issue is not the assembly utilising the money; it is how the money comes to the fund. What happens today is if the assembly wants their money, they do a requisition to the county treasury led by the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) in charge of finance in a county will forward that requisition to the Controller of Budget (CoB) for that money to come to the county assembly. Now, here is the catch. When they write to the CECM, they delay forwarding the same to the CoB. So that is the problem right there. If we do not cure that part, then even this Bill will also have the same problem. They will be writing to the county treasury, who will not forward to the CoB. Once the CoB approves the money to the county assembly and is disbursed to the fund, we are asking the CoB to approve the use of this fund, which is wrong. The autonomy or the independence we are giving the county assembly, we are now giving it to CoB. I will be bringing an amendment to make sure that we give the clerk to the county assembly the power to do requisition directly to the CoB, and not necessarily through the county treasury. The county treasury has already done the budget. 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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