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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "Time and again we had our governors appearing before the various committees. The experiences that we get and see from not only their presentation but even the documentations that come from their offices, together with the documentation that the committees in this House are utilizing courtesy of the office of the Auditor-General, are so wanting and with glaring misappropriation and corruption. How I wish that even as we push for these resources, we do not send the resources and as we have always said, have the devolved corruption use the money for otherwise unintended purposes. I want to speak to the specific provisions of the Bill running from the clauses. Under Clause 4, which deals with the First Schedule of the Bill, this is where we have provided for additional allocations, which will consist of various funds and these funds are the funds which, as I have said, has been occasioned because of the delays in between the National Assembly and the Senate. The additional funds are pursuant to the provisions of Articles 201 and 202 of the Constitution. We are supporting all our county governments to get additional funding. In this case, each county government will get additional allocation from the national share and this particular fund will be expected to be utilized for the purpose that it has. Under Clause 5 where it gives us the various streams of these additional conditional and unconditional allocations, we have got the one which I will want to speak specifically to, the ones which are relevant to the county that I represent, the County Government of Bomet, where on the one hand we do not have of course under Column B allocations for purposes of construction of the county headquarters. Colleagues here have talked about funds that are allocated for County Aggregated Industrial Parks (CAIPs) in various counties. This is one allocation in which, out of the 47 counties, 19 have so far benefited. This particular allocation, which is reflected under Clause 5 will be expected to be utilized for good use. It was in the course of this particular allocation that I expected our respective counties to also avail in their budget the additional Kshs250 million. I am aware that in Bomet County, this ought to have happened in the previous financial year so that even though it is not among the 19 that have already benefited and those which will benefit from the passage of this Bill, the allocation at the county level from the previous funds ought to have been utilized. Unfortunately, because of what we have called the devolved corruption, the allocation of Kshs50 million that had been put by the County Assembly for this purpose has already been reallocated elsewhere because of the interest that the leadership at the county level has utilized. This particular Bill will make sure that the 19 counties that are expected to benefit will benefit. We look forward to making sure that once this Kshs250 million is disbursed, those counties are to use that money to develop the industrial parks, support the locals, support the people of the respective counties, to get jobs and to add value to their produce from those industrial parks. The most important - and this is the one that all of us as Members of this House support to the last coin - is with regards to the conditional allocation for Community Health Promoters (CHPs). In this case, this is one of the most critical supports that we 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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