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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the second thing which is very important and which we need to note is that counties must plan. If you do not plan to use your money properly, you will get into a situation where you will run out of that money and you will end up with some of your projects and activities not being financed. For example, if you look at this schedule just as an example, the Equitable Share that the County of Nyeri will get is Kshs3.2 billion. So, for the month of August, they will get Kshs276 million, and Kshs276 million in September. So, the county government must plan for the month of September for the Kshs276 million. Obviously, they have an annual budget. Therefore, they have to plan to ensure that they plan their budgets and activities in such a way that they know which one will be done this month, and the one for next month, so that they do not get into a situation where, at the end of the year, they do not understand what happened to their money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the county treasuries are the ones responsible for managing finances because once money goes into the County Revenue Fund (CRF) it gets transferred, on application, by the Controller of Budget to the respective operational accounts of the vote holders. Every Ministry has a vote. The county assemblies have a vote. The money gets into the operational accounts. That is a matter that the Controller of Budget has a responsibility over. All these departments have to apply and the Controller of Budget has to look at their budgets and requisition. If they meet the requirements, she appropriately transfers money so that they start spending. The county governments can, therefore, begin working. For a long time - six months - we have been talking about functions. The functions have now been gazetted. Resources for this financial year have started going down. Therefore, county governments will have no excuse for not working. County governments have no excuse not to show development projects and to start undertaking development activities which can be examined by people on the ground. It is time that the public and the residents of the counties started seeing activities in terms of service delivery by county governments. In other words, the clock has started ticking for them. It is time that county governments started delivering. This is about accountability and prudent spending. The money they will get will not be enough for all the activities that they want to undertake. So, this is a question of being prudent or utilising money for the activities that are most needed by the residents of county governments. The question of accountability becomes very important. Kenyans have already started - last month and this month, when counties started getting their monies - to look at accountability. Will county governments be different from the previous national government Ministries we have been seeing? Are hospitals going to be 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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