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    "content": "analysis and budgeting. Fourth, we have the transition head of internal audit and fifth the staff deployed or seconded to the transition county treasury. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, are you telling me that the Senate of the Republic of Kenya wants to keep the county executive so well carefully selected, some of the so highly qualified to remain in limbo when some of these junior officers from the Ministries, who have been seconded to counties, are the ones who will be discharging their mandate? This is something we want to think about and I will be requesting the Committee that when we come to the Third Reading of this Bill, we be allowed if indeed we must amend this Act so that it goes on up to 2014, that we allow them to go on up to 2014, but create a win-win situation whereby if the Committee will allow, we create a partnership between these five people from the Transition Authority and the Executive Committee of the county government. If you look at most of the counties, they have the cabinet secretary in charge of finance and county treasury. Then they have the chief officer in charge of finance and then they also have the head of finance. These are the critical people who are waiting that the five people who currently control the county treasury give way so that they start discharging. In counties like Kakamega and Bungoma where I have done my research, they have recruited very competent professionals. So, I will be down on my knees asking the Committee to accept that if we must amend it, then we should go further after amending to provide for an extension, we go further and amend Article 5 which establishes the county treasury. We amend it so that we then introduce members from the county executive to sit on the newly established county treasury. We should allow the following to sit on the County Treasury; the cabinet secretary in charge of finance, the chief officer in charge of finance and the head of finance. Because the chairman is a well established finance expert, it reads nonsense that you can have an internal auditor sitting on this same committee. So, we should remove the internal auditor so that we allow these three officers to come in from the governor’s office to sit with those officers from the national Government and put their heads together at the expiry of the tenure of this new team in June, 2014. These three players who will have come in from the county executive will have the institutional memory and things will then flow. Otherwise, we are putting out governors in disrepute. If Senators were watching like eagles, they would not want to see a mistake being done. It will be wrong for you to go in February, April or June next year to go and pin down the governor on the failures either by way of commission or omission of things that he was not part of. The governor is not part of this Committee because he does not sit there, his deputy does not sit there and none of his members of the executive committee sit there. As we oversight the governor, we want to pin him down in law and tell him that he is the chief executive officer and the people working under him are the ones who have been doing this. He will come and defend himself in court and say that he was not part of it. Who is to blame? The National Assembly of the last Parliament and the current Senate."
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