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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government",
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        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
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    "content": "companies which belong to county governments. For those entities again, there is very clear provision on how they ought to be managed, what are their accounting processes, whom do they report to and who, in overall, approves their budgets at the county levels. So, all those things have been brought very clearly in this Bill and I would like to say that it is important that hon. Members scrutinize it. It is a very huge document but there are issues that we must bear in mind that if not properly taken care of, there could be a risk of an overlap or intrusion into the management of county governments. I also want to state here that these Bills provide a very elaborate process on the budget stages that the county governments must also take. I am dwelling more on the county governments because, at the end of the day, that was the focus that I had put in it. The focus has got to be that once the budget cycle starts nationally - because the county government financial years are in concurrence with the national budget--- Once the process is triggered off and there is a mechanism to show that there has to be an inter- governmental budget council which brings the national government and the county governments together, they have an opportunity to discuss the policy issues that must be incorporated in matters of finance. Then they will have a timetable upon which to deliver. That way, by the time the national budget is coming to the Assembly or Parliament, what the county governments have also requested or put in place can be adequately captured at the national level so that, subsequently, when they are getting their share, it is very clear on what is expected. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill goes further to also repeal a number of Acts. I think it is important that hon. Members note that because there are some Bills that we had passed earlier, things to do with guarantees, borrowing and how grants can also be extended to county governments. I think those are very important provisions which I would like hon. Members to look at very carefully. That is because in all these, we were also proposing that at no time should one government crowd out the other when it comes to borrowing and when it comes to grants being extended."
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