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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the feeder roads are maintained by the county governments yet the county governments’ monies are delayed. Monies for Makueni County and all other counties are delayed for two or three months and the cost of the delay is very high for all the counties and the Government at large. This is something we should look at, as a Senate, and make sure that there is enough pressure for the monies to reach the counties at a good time. With that, salaries will be paid on time and the counties will not resort to borrowing from commercial banks such as Co-operative Bank that has been kind enough to help a lot of counties across the country. When the counties borrow money from the banks, it means that the county and the people of Kenya are losing money to traders. The railway network serves and interconnects the counties. It is important for us to have a network which serves the city. If that happens, a lot of people will leave their cars at home and the traffic jams will reduce. We should have a railway network, which goes into many parts of the country. The SGR links Nairobi and Mombasa and there is an effort to have it get to Kisumu though that has delayed. Part of what messed up the plan was exorbitant prices of land, which had to be purchased, yet this land should have been allocated from the beginning as part of the railway schedule. With that, we would not have had the need to buy land from the public. We never take into consideration the Auditor-General's report when making the Division of Revenue Bill because they have delayed in years. How better would it be for us to have the report of the Auditor-General and the report of the Commission of Revenue Allocation (CRA) ready when making the Division of Revenue Bill? These reports raise a lot of questions most of the times. There are counties that end up feeling that they have been denied money unjustifiably."
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