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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at the same time, the report is of great significance to the county assemblies. This is because they know how much money is going to the county executives, so that they also look forward to the reports from the Controller of Budget, because they also get all those reports. But more importantly since they exercise oversight over the county governments routinely as required by law, they must look at how that money is utilized. Therefore, there is no worry at all as far as our Committee is concerned, that money will be available. As far as we are concerned, based on this Schedule, the national Treasury will be sending money to the counties. I think that the main concern of everyone in this country has been whether this Government will be committed to sending money to the counties. I think that this schedule is a clear indication. I know that the first one has gone and the money will be going that way every month. So, it is now up to the county governments to plan. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my good friend, Sen. Karaba, did mention that counties are just payroll masters. But, in fact, when you look at the schedule and the notes in it done by the national Treasury, on the payroll, it gives very different facts on that. The facts are that the issue of the payroll for the months of August, September and October was agreed at the Summit between the county governments and national Government. It was agreed that the national Government will continue paying salaries for those three months, to allow the county governments to prepare to take over the payroll. So, when you look at it, the payroll that will be paid by the national Government, on behalf of the county governments per month, comes to actually Kshs4.5 billion. The Kshs4.5 billion for 47 counties will really not come to more than Kshs100 million, on average. So, when you look at the month of August and September, the amount of money being sent to the counties is Kshs16.1 billion. So, out of that Kshs16.1 billion only about Kshs4.5 billion will be payroll."
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