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    "id": 1495013,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13592,
        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to say a few things about this Bill. I am extremely excited about the Senate as a House because we are now becoming proactive. Many of us have been raising the issues and discussing why the county governments and the county assemblies look like they are all operating in a dysfunctional manner that is deliberately skewed to make sure that MCAs do not get a working environment that is comfortable for them and that will be responsive to the needs of the public. Sometimes, their salaries are delayed and not because the exchequer has not released the money. It is because you find that the MCAs are beginning to plod and investigate some of the things, which many of our governors are doing pertaining to financial mismanagement or management. The scenario you have is that the governors sometimes have ended up being punitive. Where sometimes, the salaries of many of these MCAs are. Also, they delay the release of funds which the Government has issued for these MCAs to even buy cars and get mortgages for themselves. This Bill is good and will cure one of the issues that we have been struggling with as a House. I am proud of you because as my colleagues have said, this is a well-thought- out Bill. The only thing I have seen in the Bill is that Sen. Osotsi also raised this issue. We do not need the CoB to permit the money to be transferred into the new account that will be set up within the county assembly. That can be done electronically and you do not need somebody to leave Kisii to head to Nairobi to come and persuade the directors and the members of the CoB Office to release the money to the county assemblies. However, I believe that due diligence will be followed. Secondly, the other law that we need to look at and that we must begin to investigate is the law about ward funds. There is opposition from the governors because they believe that ward funds should not be given to the MCAs for oversight. Why? The governors believe that once you control the money, then it is easy for you to control the MCAs so that they can deliberately start playing the games they play right now where you find there is no oversight. The governor walks around with MCAs singing and saying The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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