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    "content": "revenue from tourism. Every county is busy looking for money. Who is going to make sure that that money, which we are looking for, is well spent? Who will make sure that whatever money they are borrowing is not only from the county as if there is no money that can be got from other sources? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in Kirinyaga County, the national Government is putting up a dam at a cost of Kshs12 billion which is in excess of what the county is getting from the national Government which is about Kshs2.75 billion. So if the national Government has set aside Kshs12 billion to put up irrigation works in Kirinyaga County, how will the Governor claim that this money is from the county? To avoid mix up, we can borrow money from other sources. So, there is need for all of us to sit down and come up with what we call accountability. That is what we are looking for in this Bill so that the money which is allocated to the county government and other monies generated from other sources can be accounted for. You might have noticed that in Machakos, there was a problem and in Nyeri, they want to start wind power generation. When all this happens, there will be a problem since some governors will not know what to do with the money because it will be too much. It is only the elected Members who should sit down and decide how that money will be spent. Without this team, the citizens will be left wondering what the county is doing. This is an important Bill that will safeguard the wealth of the county and the powers of the Governor. It also limits how much the Governor should use. We also have a problem with some of the governors who are not as experienced as some of these people who you see here. Some of them were elected because there was euphoria. Some of these people do not have any experience in handling money, so the moment you give them Kshs1 billion, they will spend it according to where they got more votes and by so doing, the Governor will continue plundering public money. The moment you involve the Senator, he will be the stabilizing factor in that county to make sure that even in areas where the people did not vote for the Governor, they are also served. Where the Governor feels he has enemies in a certain area, it is the Senator who will be the stabilizing factor. That is the reason this Bill is important. Without passing this Bill, we will be digging our own graves here. We are going to commit suicide."
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