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    "id": 380962,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I did not know that my colleague would easily get tired of listening to this very important exposé on this issue. The capacity of the counties must be built by coming up with proper frameworks to assist them. In fact, the County Assembly Budget Office must be quickly established and be allowed to hire enough staff to allow the county assemblies to do proper budgets as we go to the 2014/2015 Financial Year. Lastly, one of the things that must be done at the local level is to show county assemblies that they are not competing with county executives in terms of allocations. Some reports from some counties indicate that some county assembly members have been telling governors that they must share the money 50-50. The county assemblies should get 50 per cent and the county executives 50 per cent. In one county, county assembly members came up with particular budgeting lines that said that they would create some CDF for county assembly members and the money would be wired to the accounts of every county assembly member. This money will be used to take care of elders and persons with disabilities, so that if they go round the counties and see an old man, they give them something small. The capacities for these counties to carry out these budgets must appreciate. A lot of blame has been put on county Governors. People are blaming Governors saying that they have mis-budgeted and that they are the worst Governors. However, budgeting is a function of the county assemblies. However, these assemblies have no capacity. We must build that capacity. We must always understand that we cannot allocate all the money to recurrent expenditure. It must also go to development expenditure. Development is not about building houses for county assembly officers. Development is about creating activities that people of a county will benefit from in terms of roads, hospitals, housing and addressing unemployment, among others. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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