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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "We have recommended about 10 per cent on average to all the other commissions. I hope commissions are listening to this House. That they must be added money to effectively make sure that there is no graft in our nation, Kenya. The two watchdog commissions, the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) and the CoB, have rightfully gained our respect from their submissions. They have made sure that they can have up to 20 per cent increment of the money that the National Treasury envisioned at what they should be given from the BPS. I will tell you why. Due to time constraints, I will use an example of lack of automation of requisitions that CoB has to deal with every single moment. We went through this exercise with the Finance and Budget Committee in Migori County. If you go and look at the kind of requisitions that are made in our counties, for instance, you will find that the CoB is given requisition with invoices for commercial entities that have done supplies or any kind of works in counties to the tunes of X amount of money. Mr. Speaker, Sir, after giving the authorization to governors as per Article 225 of the Constitution, you will find that those invoices are no longer in the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) and Internet Banking (IB). If there were 100 invoices given to the CoB at the time of requisition, one invoice is given at the time of payment, consolidating all the other stakeholders who had supplied to a county to the extent that voiding has become part and parcel of our DNA for payment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, money is getting lost in counties in ways that is embarrassing, demotivating and annoying because of lack of automation in the requisition process by the CoB. What is wrong if the CoB appears this House through our committee and makes a requisition for further financing to make automation possible? I congratulate this committee for having strongly listened to all the commissioners to the extent that we have taken an active role in making sure that those commissions and independent offices have been added money in this budget-making process. I hope that the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning will listen to our proposals in this report. He should make sure that those commissions are given what is due to them. The independent offices should be empowered through this budget-making process to get adequate resources to perform their functions. Second is the submission from the committee that I sit, the Standing Committee on Road, Transportion and Housing, that was given to this committee. Members can find that report. One of the things that we depicted is the fight that has continued to go on within the realms of Parliament and the corridors of court on the issue of Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF). In this report, we have said that if this report passes in this House, when the Finance Bill comes to these Houses and the issue of RMLF is not solved according to recommendations made by this committee in this report, we will not pass subsequent budgetary Bills in this House. There is a reason for that. When RMLF came about, the Government was taking about Kshs18 from it. There has been a contention time without number on Kshs10 billion that is supposed to go to counties for a very simple reason. There are county and national Government roads, which are being used by Kenyans. You cannot take money from a levy that you are 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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