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    "content": "without due process. There has been requisition of services without due process being followed by the county governments. That is very clear. One of the main challenges, as people have said in the previous Motion, is the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). If we were to implement IFMIS in its proper format, then you would find that many counties would have higher capacity for implementation than they currently have. They are supposed to submit quarterly reports to this House and to the national Treasury so that we vet and see how money is being spent at the county level. Similarly, we are urging county governments to invest in the future. Let us not be people who know about spending. Let us also invest in areas which can give us revenue. Let us invest in building human capacity and resource. As the Chairman of the Committee on Education, Information and Technology, I am also urging that county governments put in sufficient amounts of money to look after the smallest children in our schools. We have seen, in our visits, situations where four year old pupils are spending a whole day sitting somewhere under a tree with no water or food, in a place where they call a school. Those children hate school. When we are in a nation where a four or five year old hates school, then we are sitting on a time bomb. Therefore, in terms of priorities, counties ought to be giving a meaning to devolved governments and to taking over devolved governments. This can be well demonstrated if the counties were to start building institutions for the youngest people in our nation. Therefore, we launched, as a Committee, what we are calling “the best classroom in the school” meaning that the best classroom ought to belong to the youngest members of that school; that is the kindergarten and the Early Childhood Development (ECD) learning facilities that exist in every school in our country. With those few remarks, I beg to move and ask Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o to second the Motion."
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