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    "id": 343696,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Bill. I am supporting this Bill with one very important cautionary remark. One, we must understand that county governments will inherit all kinds of local authorities under them. You must understand that at the moment in my county, for example, there are about six districts, each one of which has had a local authority collecting revenue and expending it, owing assets and incuring liabilities. So, these counties will have a tremendous job to do. How do you collectivise what these different local authorities have been doing into one entity? I hope that one of the first things that will happen is that as soon as we pass this Bill and it is assented to, to become an Act the Transition Authority, along with the Treasury, will move fast to appoint the relevant officers envisaged in this Bill to be trained in what they will do. Let me draw your attention to Clause 8(e) which says among other things, despite the generality of sub-section (1) “Each Transition County Treasury shall act as the custodian of an inventory of the respective county government assets, except as may be provided by the Constitution or other legislation”. One of the things that we envisaged, which will be a monumental task, is how county governments will assess and establish the assets owned by all these local authorities that they will have inherited from local authorities. Along with those assets will come liabilities. One of the things that completely flabbergasted me recently when I went to Nyando County Council was the fact that Nyando County Council had to collect settlement rates which go back several years. I am sure they will not complete doing that job by the end of this year. This means that this will be a liability that the new county government will inherit. I am quite sure that there are many new county governments which will inherit this kind of problem all over the country. So, it is not a small problem. So, the responsibility given here for the Transition Authority to act as custodian for the inventory of the respective county government assets, and I include liabilities as well, is a job that will take quite some time. Secondly, in sub clause “J” it states “assist county government entities in developing their capacities for efficient, effective, prudent and transparent financial management.”"
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