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    "content": "no issue at all because after all, budgets are ceilings of expenditure. Anybody wanting to talk about ceilings should therefore dishonour any budgetary proceedings in the Houses of Parliament and in the county assembly at the county level. I would like to remind hon. Members that it is Section 116 which gave the “Lower House” the leeway to do what they did. Again, Section 116 (3) talks of the limitations Parliament can have not to pass what would benefit them at the sitting of that period of the House. This has not been pushed down to the county governments and their legislative assemblies. There should be a section in the Constitution that limits the county assemblies from passing Motions and expenditures that directly benefit them during that session. Therefore, as we pass this Bill, the county assemblies should not think that this is money that should be misused at that level. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have heard that Kshs12 billion has been set aside for MCA’s consumption. Let them be notified that we are watching because that has not been factored in the Budget. If they want to appear before our Committees that they so much dread, then that is the surest way of doing so. It will no longer be acceptable to use public funds on such issues. As I support this amendment, it should be known that counties should be careful on how they spend their money. They should not appear to be in limbo at the end of the financial year, crying left and right because they misused their finances to the end of the financial year."
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