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    "content": "subject of this Motion. The national Government has a responsibility to build capacity. We urge the national Government to set up the infrastructure. Unless we do this, it will be wrong to continue pushing the county governments to use IFMIS since they do not have the connectivity for that. The other advantage of this system as mentioned in the Motion, which I agree with, is public participation. It would become very easy if technology was available and if everyone in the counties was connected for the public to participate through emails which is now allowed under the law. It would be easy to communicate through the ICT rather than hold conferences and meetings. People can give their comments, ideas and views through county assemblies on any transaction that is related to the county governments and forward them to the appropriate office; either by email or by other communication. This is very important because it enhances accessibility and public participation. The other issue which is important is that it can lower the public expenditure of the county governments. Today, county governments are placing advertisements every day in the newspapers. Almost one-third of the advertising space in the newspapers is being taken up by the counties. If county governments get better connectivity through this infrastructure, they will publish all those things in their websites rather than putting them through advertisements. There, again, the cost factor goes down. Fourth, the most important thing about having fibre optic, in my view, is to have electronic revenue collection. One of the biggest challenges facing the county governments is revenue collection. There is a lot of pilferage and revenue loss due to the manual systems which are used in collecting, receipting and accounting for these revenues. Many counties have advertised for software that will allow them to electronically collect revenue. For them to do so, they need to have a stable system. Fibre optic is one of those things that will provide that stability in the network. Lastly, the point I want to emphasise and what the Motion talks about is; linking all county headquarters to relevant national institutions, including the Senate. That is important. We want to interrogate what is going on in the county governments and we want to deal with the county assemblies, but there is no connection. We are not in an age The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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