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    "content": "figures are exaggerated to this level, somebody is tempted to ask: Is somebody getting something out of it? This is possibly an exercise where county governments are working in collusion with service providers to swindle some of the resources in the counties. Therefore, counties need to look at that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have the TA that we gave the responsibility to take an audit of the assets in our counties. Some of the resources that we are now sending to the counties will be spent in acquiring some offices and building some structures within the counties, yet we know that we already have some of these facilities existing in the counties, but they are still under the hands of the national Government. Why can we not prioritize and focus on auditing of assets, so that we are able to complete that exercise and then assign some of these assets to our counties? This will ensure that counties do not need to use their resources in setting up county headquarters and putting up new buildings, yet some of these facilities already exist within the counties. Therefore, for the remaining one year that the TA still has in office, we hope that they can finalize this process, so that in the next financial year all the resources that will be availed to county governments will go into development projects rather than recurrent expenditure. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is also important for counties to carry out an audit of their staffing needs. Our counties continue to engage new staff. This is something that we, as the Senate, need to look into. After hiring 30 ward administrators in my county, for example, do we need to employ another 300 or so village administrators? What is the work of a village administrator? What is it that the ward administrator cannot do? We need to really rationalize the staffing requirements that we have in our counties, so that we are able to release more resources from recurrent expenditure into development projects within our counties. Therefore, the aspect of prudent use of the very little resources that we are sending to counties is important. We hope that our Governors will be able to agree with us that devolution was about development at the county level rather than resources at the county level. We have heard some phrase in Kiswahili “pesa mashinani,” but if you ask the ordinary"
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