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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1503141/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This Bill is very timely and important. It will ensure that accounting officers at the two levels of Government are accountable to the people. The Bill explicitly explains the relationship between a transferring entity at the national or county Government and the responsibilities conferred to the receiving entity. As the Budget and Appropriations Committee Chairman said, we have had cases where county government officers often complain that they cannot provide a service because it is not their function. That the service is not catered for in their level of Government. This Bill seeks to emphasise what the transferred entity is supposed to do, the cash flow from the national Government or the county government to the receiving entity and, more importantly, the sources of revenue. It puts the officers and the institutions that are receiving the responsibility, for example, in agriculture and health sector… Several people at times do not have drugs and requisite facilities, yet the national Government has already transferred those services to the county governments. On that same note, this requirement, Leader of the Majority Party, is that the two entities transferring services are supposed to transfer and sign off that they have received that function and start providing the services from that particular time going forward. The Bill clearly specifies that functions that have been transferred from the national or county Government, or vice versa, shall be audited immediately, and those documents shall be provided to the Office of the Auditor-General. The document should be tabled in the Senate and the National Assembly because these are the Houses representing the people of Kenya. Leader of the Majority Party, there is no better time we need this document than now. Across the country, dissatisfaction is common among citizens. We do not have citizens of the county or national Government; we have citizens of the Republic of Kenya. This is the time that we need to put our foot down to ensure accountability across all government functions. Lastly is the issue of assets and liabilities. At the start of devolution, many government assets and liabilities got lost, especially in what we used to call the county councils. Regarding"
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