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    "id": 1505607,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mandago",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiplagat Jackson Mandago",
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    "content": "Counties should then be able to use the automated processes to requisition funds and eliminate the aspect of traveling. Traveling is not limited to the requirement by the CoB. Sometimes counties and officers within the department of treasury in the counties use it as an opportunity to get a chance to travel. The motivation of traveling to Nairobi is very high because this is the capital city of the Republic of Kenya and the allowances are fairly good. We are happy as Uasin Gishu County because Eldoret is now a city. Sen. Osotsi and Vihiga County can take their conferences to Eldoret as it will help boost tourism. The problem of travelling is not necessarily just limited to the issue of CoB, but we must also, as a Senate, interrogate whether the travels by counties are related. Officers could be traveling with the excuse of going to the CoB, yet they have actually no issues to transact at the CoB’s office. I support this report. I want to persuade my colleagues to support this report by the Mediation Committee, led by our Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget here at the Senate, so that our counties can access funds. We appreciate that we have very little time. If counties have to achieve the targets they have set for this financial year, then the sooner we clear this to make the funds available to them, the better. However, we must also say that our counties have not been performing as expected. If we look at the devolved functions and what has been done for the first and second financial years, there is a big challenge. In my own county in the last two financial years, there is no single Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) classroom that has been constructed, yet funds have always been voted for construction ECDEs. We want to urge our governors to be hands-on in monitoring the implementation of their county programmes and make sure that the funds that we allocate at Senate and send counties are then utilized to offer services to the respective citizens of the counties. I beg to support this report."
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