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    "id": 446796,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "communicate to the county government. If we forward those things in an informal manner we are told to forward them to the national Government. The law clearly states that the county government, under the leadership of the governor, shall create avenues where Members of the National Assembly and the Senate shall meet to deliberate on issues of development. We thought that it is important for us to give our input in the presence of the Leader of Majority Party, Leader of Minority Party, the Chair of Budget Committee and the Chair of Finance and Planning Committee who are Members of this board. We expect that they will take note of those things. They have concerns also as elected members. The other thing that they are supposed to consider is to give input on county annual budgets before they are tabled in the county assembly. As you may be aware, there are many forums that are being held across the country and in particular in the counties where issues of the integrated plan of the county government is discussed. Some of these issues are brought before laymen who may not be aware of those issues. We were elected to assist facilitate development within the county and the constituencies. So, it is important for us to participate in that process before anything is tabled in the county assembly. We need to give our input as elected members. Finally, some of the issues that we think may arise are issues of insecurity and corruption. As you know, a lot of money has been devolved to the counties; Kshs226billion to be precise. Record monies have been given to the County of Turkana, the County of Mandera and so on, each getting Kshs8 billion. I am told they had never seen anything above Kshs10 million in their accounts. But now they are boasting of accounts of Kshs1.5 billion. It is important that as Members of Parliament we play an oversight role. We need to look at some of the things that may affect development in our constituencies and counties. What we agreed is that the others are purely procedural issues. We stated that the quorum of any meeting shall be composed of a third of all the members of the board. We have also stated that the meetings of the County Development Board shall be held in the headquarters of the county once every quarter. These are not going to be regular meetings. So, there are no meetings that are going to be called unless there are issues that will arise. We have also provided that in the absence of the chair, the vice-chair will chair and in the absence of both, a person will be elected from amongst the members of the County Development Board."
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