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    "content": "saying that this budget is simply a process by which we build confusion, learn from confusion and then eventually become people who can budget. My view is that the training about the budget process should start now in the counties so that in the next twelve months, by the time we get down to another budget, we will have perfected the art and skill of building a budget rather than the terrible confusion that currently exists. Madam Temporary Speaker, even some of the issues we are attacking our governors about are actually out of ignorance. I would like to imagine that there is no real governor worth his salt who would like to put in 12 or 13 vehicles for county executives if they were aware that they could not do that. The reason they are doing it is because, in utmost good faith, they believe that they can do it. They believe that the central Government will approve it. Of course, we are aware that these are budgets in futility because when they are sent to one Agnes Odhiambo, the Controller of Budget in this country, she will not agree to have the money spent in the manner that the county governments want. Madam Temporary Speaker, having said that, there is also need for capacity building as my colleagues have alluded to, in the county governments by way of serious training. This particular Bill has very serious issues that have to be dealt with at the amendment level when we go to the Committee of the Whole. Of particular concern to me is deficit financing. This deficit financing is in two levels. First, there is deficit financing in terms of the “wish list” I have just mentioned and what the county governments have given as a budget and delivered. Secondly, there is deficit in terms of what they are doing to get - the real money they have. How will the deficit be met, given that they do not have the capacity to borrow as we speak? The second dimension of deficit financing envisioned in this Bill is the one that is being transferred from the central government to the devolved governments. The logic behind the deficit being passed to some counties is akin to reverse racism."
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