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    "id": 239901,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": ". We need a lot of planning, proper organisation and management of service delivery. This goes down to the ward level. This is where the management and organisation of the Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF) comes in. My proposal is that we need to have ward committees just the way we have CDF committees at the constituency level. It is very paramount to have these committees at the ward level to oversee the implementation of services being delivered by this Ministry because as it is now, all the decisions are just being made by the councillors at the ward level. It is him or her to decide where to allocate LATF money this financial year, which student to award bursaries because I am aware the Ministry of Local Government has bursaries through the county councils that are awarded through the ward councillors. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would propose that it is good to have in each and every ward a committee selected or elected by the people of that ward under the chairmanship or patronage of the elected area councillor that will decide on how these services are going to be delivered to the people. We have like, as I have said, the LATF. I am made to understand that currently each and every financial year, every ward receives at least one development project and that is the case in my county council. However, the identification and implementation of that one project is left to the discretion of the area councillor. It is time that we gave decision making roles to the people at the grassroots level. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the county council level, I would request the Ministry to speed up procurement procedures for these services because I have witnessed a process in which a project is awarded to a certain ward and it takes two financial years before it is actually realised at the grassroots level. When the people at the grassroots level put the area councillor to task, the only explanation they give is that the procurement at the district level takes almost a year to award the Local Purchase Orders (LPOs) up to the implementation of the project. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to say that there are so many projects that were started by this Ministry all over the country ranging from boreholes, cattle dips and markets that have stalled. Actually, it is very important that these boreholes, cattle dips and markets be revived because they are of great service to the people of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know the previous speakers have also talked about the remuneration of councillors and I would also support that proposal that these leaders at the 2570 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 2, 2006 grassroots level be well remunerated. I am very sure that the Minister for Local Government is in agreement with all of us that they are not properly remunerated right now. I would also propose like other hon. Members have said that it is high time we think of how these leaders are going to be remunerated. Actually one proposal is that because we have talked of the sustainability and viability of some local authorities, if we could merge some and scrap those which are not viable, we can reduce the number of councillors and pay them well. It is better to have few of them who are well remunerated than having very many of them who are poorly remunerated. I would like to support."
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