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    "id": 396986,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mositet",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 608,
        "legal_name": "Peter Korinko Mositet",
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    "content": "Thank you for allowing me to support this Report. For sure, I just want to remind the Senate that from the time we were elected to date, wananchi at the ground have been asking what is happening because they have not seen any development taking place. I do believe a lot has been happening; trying to put things in order and for us to pass this Report, we are making a statement that the national Treasury will gazette that Schedule so that everybody knows that in a particular month, this county expects this amount of money. I thank my Committee, and I know that provision of making the disbursements monthly was actually adopted by the Committee. To me, that is one of the best things; that the counties at any one time will not feel that they do not have enough funds. Mine is just to say that this is the time to make sure that the county governors and the county executives plan for the entire period up to next year to make sure that all the development programmes that they had already budgeted for and passed by the respective county assemblies are given priority so that every time the money is disbursed, it is not just in the accounts but they will just find the projects going on and there will be no interruptions. So, if it is procurement, they should make sure that they do a transparent and open procurement. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just as the other Senators have said, we will not want to see a situation where we only talk about corruption at the national Government and yet in the devolved system, people do not get services in the counties simply because the executive is not transparent. The money should go to whatever use it had been budgeted for. This is now the time the county assemblies will have work in oversighting the utilization of resources. They should be able to know how the projects they had passed in their assemblies are performing. The committees in charge of those particular departments will start to be very busy trying to see to it that those projects are going on. 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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