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    "id": 1545029,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. For me, the Statement by the Senator of Lamu is most critical. We are halfway through the term of this Parliament and the term of everyone who was elected in 2022. The entire discussion for t he remainder of the period should be about development and development-spending. Here in Nairobi, we got some curious information from the Controller of Budget (CoB) that the County of Nairobi City had spent zero on development in the last financial year. I am happy that the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations chaired very ably by Senator of Wajir, Hon. Abbas, has scheduled a conversation with my County Government, so that we go through every single coin that has been pushed through this Senate to the County Government of Nairobi City in the two financial years because we want to be told where this money has gone. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there should be nothing else to discuss. Although I share the concerns by Sen. Osotsi on the confusion on which committee handles which matter, I am more than pleased to have these governors appearing in all of our committees. This is because Sen. Abbas will focus on development spending and fiscal responsibility will be the duty of the Committee on Finance and Budget. We need to have these conversations. If we do nothing else for the remainder of the term, let us have that conversation on development spending. If you look at the report of the Auditor-General, many of our counties are spending much higher amounts on recurrent expenditure. People are doing up to 60 per cent and nothing is happening on the development side. There was also a very interesting conversation on the national Government spending in our counties. Whereas everybody is clear on how much money goes to their counties through devolution, we are not clear on how much money the national Government spends in our respective counties. I would want the Committee on Finance and Budget to also focus on that. We would like to know of the entire amount of money, the Kshs2 trillion that is reserved to the national Government, how much has been spent in my county on roads or on education for instance. This is because I saw the President around and most of the projects he was launching were projects that were either undertaken by the County Government or by the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) through Members of Parliament (MPs). Mr. Speaker, Sir, we want to know how much money of the national Government share has been spent by the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports, Ministry of Tourism and Petroleum or the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development, how much money of the national government share in our 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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