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    "content": "Section 30 of the County Governments Act is very clear that the County Governor is responsible for the use and management of resources within his county. The buck stops with them. I want to urge Members to study the Reports by the Controller and Auditor-General and to take them seriously. If county governments are misusing money, not accounting for money or are using it imprudently, we have to demand action. That is very important. I want to conclude by saying that there will be some amendments that our committee will be bringing to raise the figure to Kshs226.66 billion. The Kshs600 billion is an additional amount. We will also bring an amendment for the Kshs1.87 billion Level 5 Hospital conditional allocations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a requirement in law, this financial year; the Treasury has requested for implementation of programme based budgets by county governments. We have recommended an amendment to the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) so that the requirement for implementation of programme based budgets for county governments takes effect from 2015/2016 Financial Year. We will bring that amendment so that it is practical to implement that. I want to urge Senators to support this Bill so that we pass it. By tomorrow, we should be concluding it so that county governments can have access to finance. I beg to move and ask Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale to second the Bill."
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