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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. We have spoken to most of these Bills, especially in the process from Division of Revenue. One of the critical roles of the Senate is what we are doing today. Under Article 96, the role of the Senate is to protect devolution. One way of protecting devolution is allocating sufficient resources. The role of the Senate, for the benefit of your guests at the gallery, is to protect devolution, do representation, oversight and budget-making, which they are privileged to watch from the gallery. The County Governments Additional Allocation No.2 Bill of 2025 emanates from Article 202 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, where these additional funds can be conditional or unconditional, unlike Article 210, where it talks about at least 15 per cent of latest audited national revenue. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to appeal to the National Assembly to fast track the auditing of the latest revenue. I insist and repeat the umpteenth time, that it does not make sense that the national budget is Kshs4.2 trillion yet we are allocating Kshs415 billion only to counties. Counties are choking on their own weight of the wage bill. The highest county was Kisii, with almost 56 to 58 per cent wage bill. Nandi County is a forgone story, where your friend is spending over Kshs4 billion in terms of wage bill with an allocation of Kshs8 billion. That is why the people of Nandi County now cannot access markets. The roads are totally impassable. I saw a number of local artists which you are familiar with, slipping and falling down during the Jantex homecoming in Cherondo. A number of them like DJ Kaptula, Arap Uria, Koima, among others, bore the brunt. Just like Bomet County, we are blessed with a lot of rains. There are so many stalled projects in Nandi County. For example, Kapsengere Health Centre, Kobujoi Health Centre, which is a stone's throw away from the Governor's home. We have one in Chepterwai Health Centre in Nyayo Ward has stalled, Nandi's Hills Stadium, which whenever it rains, it is always flooded. It is a pity that it has never been fixed by the county government. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I received a report from the Controller of Budget (CoB) on the money we have disbursed to the County Government of Nandi dated 30th June, 2025. We need to see value for money. It cannot be that we are using so much energy on the Floor of the House to allocate a lot of resources to counties and it is not spent on the intended purposes. The big challenge in Nandi County is that most of the roads remain impassable. We have six sub-counties in Nandi County with impassable roads. These are not only national roads, but also county roads, also known as feeder roads. The Nandi County Government is fond of grading our roads. They do not murram, drainage and culvert them. As a result, roads remain impassable and farmers cannot delivery their milk, tea and cane to market, especially during the rainy season. 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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