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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "How I wish that what we have lost about Kshs1.6 billion, which is subject of investigation, does not become another conduit for the additional monies which we are fighting for. Today, we are angels, as one colleague has said here, because we are fighting for additional revenues to be given to our counties. Tomorrow, when we speak and ask for proper use of resources and ask the county governments and our respective governors--- when I speak and ask Prof. Barchok how he has abused the opportunity given by misappropriating funds, we are no longer angels. We will fight; we will speak so that whatever little resource that we extend to the county government is put to good use. If we are talking about Kshs 74 million towards Community Health Promoters (CHPs) those people must benefit from that money. We are talking about basic salary for health workers whose arrears are in billions of shillings. They should get the money once the amount is disbursed. When we are talking about RMLF of about Kshs163 million, that is an additional amount being allocated to the county government of Bomet, how I wish they are able to speak about the allocations for the last financial year. In most cases, the monies allocated are not utilised for purposes of construction of roads to be as motorable as those which are done by other institutions. This is an opportunity for us to push for additional money. I want to encourage Members of this House to also speak tomorrow to make sure that the monies they have sent is put into good use. Where there is abuse, let the law that we have in this country act so that we also ensure that our people get services for the monies that we send. Otherwise, as a House, we will be pushing for additional money. We will fight with the national Government; we will fight with the National Assembly. We will ask for more money to go to our county governments. As the rest of my colleagues here have said, that amount that is sent out will go into the pockets of the county governments; the county governors and their friends. Additional amount of 491 million is not a small amount of money. However, we would want to see reflection of service delivery to the people, whether in terms of payment of salaries or service delivery to a number of the projects. Unfortunately, those which are funded by other partners are visible. Those which are funded by the county governments are not visible. We would like to call upon those people at the county government, led by the county governors and their teams to make sure that as we pass this Bill, we want them to account up to the last coin. We want the people to feel the government and the resources that are sent. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I know and I want to encourage my colleagues in this House to make sure that we support and pass this Bill, so that at the end of the day, we will be having a reason to put our county governments to account. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I thank you."
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