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"content": "any mention of that thing, Road Maintenance Levy Fund; it is a debate that cannot end. We have removed it completely from the Bill until the courts have made a decision. This is because, if you do anything here, it brings in the long story of sub judice and so on. So, we have put it aside completely, and then we have remained with those three schedules. So, these are the three schedules that I want to speak to for you to appreciate and pass it quickly this morning. In the First Schedule, the Kshs7.54 billion will go towards the construction of the stalled county headquarters in those five counties that you all know. The second one will go to the County Aggregated Industrial Parks (CAIPs). They are going to be undertaken in only 19 counties and this money has been enhanced by the National Treasury from Kshs2 billion to Kshs2.9 billion. Now, when you look at your schedule, your county might or might not benefit. Do not slow down the process by saying, Okay, my county has not benefited and therefore, I am not going to support it. It is because the National Treasury - and we have agreed with them as a Committee - has phased out this process because the money is not enough. It has phased out 18 counties, Phase 1, Phase 2, 18 counties and finally Phase 3, 11 counties. At the end of the phasing, everybody will have gotten the Kshs250 million meant for this. So, even if your county - like my Kakamega - is not benefiting, we still pass it. Then, of course, there is the issue of the Community Health Promoters (CHPs). It is in there with a salary of Kshs3.234 billion. The basic salary for county health workers is worth Kshs1.7 billion and the transfer of museums to these counties. The museum, under the Constitution, is supposed to have been devolved, but it was delayed. So, we are cleaning it up. In the Third Schedule, which is fines, it is up to Kshs116.092 million. We have decided to pass these fines “ shingo upande ” because it is not even clear to us. When the National Treasury just throws it at us that go and share out Kshs116 million, what is the authenticity of that figure? What tool do we have when money is being collected in Mombasa and taken to the Consolidated Fund? Now, when they declare to us: “Senate go and share it out” how do we know that the figure they declare is the actual one and that they did not collect more? It has created a window for theft of public funds and the Committee has this morning written to the Auditor-General to do an audit of these court fines because we believe that the money collected from court fines in Kenya for two financial years cannot be116 million; it surely must be more. So, we have been disturbed and we have ordered for that special audit. It will be done and we shall report to the House. The final schedule on grants and loans is the one that has the lion share of the amount of money. It is Kshs35.66 billion. I will not waste the time of the House by talking and describing all the loans; they are in the schedule you are going to see. Basically, that is where the biggest shame that the Leader of the Majority was speaking to is, that we are having money to develop the country and because of some personal interest, we are where we 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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