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    "content": "very serious. So, I do not buy the story that this is new devolution or a new thing. It is a culture that permeates in this country and must be stopped, with punitive measures. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, I would like to go even further than the recommendations and say that caution must be given and the Controller of Budget be asked to investigate whether there is a possibility of other counties having done even worse things than what the County of Turkana has done. I am emphasizing this because as we start this, as our first case of oversight, let a wake-up call go to all and sundry that this Senate is not going to allow governors to alter any legislation that is passed by the assemblies. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of budgets all over the Republic has become very contentious. I think two days ago we had a problem in our sister County of Makueni. I think that all counties in this Republic have a problem with budgets. Either it is because they have not done budgets before or they feel that they can do what they want. So, we want to send a warning to all governors of this Republic, that whatever law, be it budgetary or legal, that the county assemblies will pass, they will have no authority to alter anything within it, because that is the law. We are moving from councillors to assemblies. Therefore, if this practice was happening in county councils, I think that they must now know that we have graduated and are now in assemblies. We have honourable members of the county assemblies who are now capable of making laws. Nobody should alter anything. I think that this is very important because we are going to see a lot. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to urge the Controller of Budget to quickly move to other counties, check and ensure that the budgets that are in operation are as per the assemblies’ passing. She should also ensure that in future, the contentious manner in which the budgets of this year have been done by the county assemblies will not happen again. We have a good example with the most powerful nation in the world; the United States of America (US), where there is a shut down. There is a shut down because the people’s representatives have refused the Executive’s proposals. There is nothing they can do about it other than to persuade them to buy their proposal. If the US Government can shut down because the people’s representatives have refused to pass a budget, why would the Governor of Turkana change the people’s representatives’ budget? I am just emphasizing this to show how serious the legislators are in doing what they are supposed to do as per the Constitution of the Republic. Therefore, let the message be sent out clearly, not only on this, but as a caution to all the governors and their executives that they will not amend anything. If they want to amend anything, they will have to return it to the county assembly which will have to deliberate. If it finds it fit, it will then make the alterations because it is the only body that is authorized by the Constitution to make any amendments. I beg to support."
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