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    "content": "Prudent expenditure requires that we have offices of integrity with people who can manage the finances. I am referring to the executive. Are they well trained with regard to the Public Finance Management Act? They should be taken for training on how to manage and control finances. Equally, procurement units should be manned by competent people of integrity who know what to order, at what time and in what quantities so that they do not overstock what is not necessary. The procurement should not be done as it has happened previously, in a haphazard manner so that at the end of the year, you see a rush of procurement activities, trying to clear the funds that are available. Procurement should begin right away so that we do not have last minutes expenditures. The Committee, in its oversight role, should require on a monthly basis to get reports from the counties on how they are spending their money so that we notice early enough counties that are not spending as required. There is allocation of funds for the executive and for the county assembly. These are independent units. The county assemblies should oversight funds allocated to the executive. We should, therefore, avoid a situation where county assembly funds are managed in a manner that will tempt the executive to oversight the assembly. That will not be the right way. The assemblies should prudently spend. In this respect, members of county assemblies should be aware that finances are limited and should be spent within the budgeted provisions. The public have a lot of expectations from the devolved system of government. The expectations they have are not about how many people have been employed in the county governments. People want to see roads, health services, revival of cattle dips, better roads for their produce to reach the market and availability of medicine in our health centres. It is, therefore, important that emphasis is placed on expenditure in this area of development. I noticed that in counties, particularly in my county of Trans Nzoia, the biggest expenditure will arise from the district hospital. This is a very expensive exercise. It would have been a relief if that was taken up separately. In other counties, you will find that hospitals have been taken care of separately. Perhaps, in the next financial year, we should consider giving Level 4 hospitals proportionate allocations as to Level 5 hospitals to relieve those counties that have Level 4 hospitals from using their normal allocations to meet their hospital expenditure. With those few remarks, I support."
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