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    "id": 1505537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1505537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13125,
        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
        "slug": "dullo-fatuma-adan"
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    "content": "Governors (COG) and County Assemblies Forum (CAF), where counties are losing a lot of money. We also have projects that have stalled, but nobody is holding those governors accountable. Some of the national government projects have also stalled. Sometimes nobody even knows what is happening with those projects. We must put our act together. The Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) is a responsibility of county governments. This afternoon, a teacher from Isiolo County has called and told me that their pay slip indicates that they are clerical officers, yet they are teachers. The title they are given by the county is clerical officers. That their salaries have deductions to SHIF, loans and subscription to certain institutions, but not remitted. Today, they cannot walk to any financial institutions to get any loan. Some of their properties are auctioned. We keep on recruiting ECDE teachers to satisfy our political ambitions and the teachers do not have classes. I know there are so many schools in my county where children are still learning under trees, while a classroom can be built even with Kshs1.5 million. A county like Isiolo receives Kshs5.6 billion per year. It is very sad. The allocation to the school feeding programme is supplemented for something else, yet these are children that cannot afford even one meal in their homes. That is the purpose of school feeding programme; to encourage such children to go to schools. Counties are supposed to establish legislations that govern certain funds, such as the Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), youth and women funds. Most of the counties have not operationalised those funds, yet they keep on utilizing money for those purposes, and nobody is holding them accountable. For example, in the Northern Kenya, a lot of money is spent on the emergency and special programme in the name of emergency, but that money is not helping anyone. If there is a drought, they provide one or two lorries of maize meal that costs about Kshs300 million and nobody looks into it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to bring on board institutions that are supposed to hold the governors or counties accountable. It is unacceptable. It is almost 13 years after devolution and we have nothing to show for. Some of the counties were better off when under the national government. I will support the Report because of the interests of my people. However, if it were for the governors who are playing rogue and corrupt, I would not have supported. I thank you."
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