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    "content": "supported effort to ensure that Senators are facilitated to reach every constituency in their counties so that they are able to get the views of the public. Mr. Chairman, Sir, my Committee on Devolved Government has just come from Garissa County and the people of Garissa told us that they would like an office for their Senator in every constituency so that they have a place to take their petitions and concerns for the Senator to bring them to this House. In the same manner, this Senate must be facilitated in terms of mobility to go and educate the public on what these resources that we are devolving are supposed to go and do at the county level. In the same way, I support the county assemblies. There is no way you are going to tell me that accountability will be achieved and that we will stop calling the governors to come to Nairobi if the county assemblies have been denied the resources to hire the necessary staff to assist their Public Accounts committees at the county level. We were told in Garissa that some of the county assemblies have only been given money enough to pay workers and none for public participation, to hire experts and build infrastructure for them to carry out their work. That is why when you see some of us opposed to ceilings of the county governments, we are not opposing just for the sake of it. We are opposing in a context of ensuring that accountability is achieved at the local level. The county assemblies must be enabled to reach their constituents and collect their views so that when they come to the House they have that capacity. My colleagues from the other side spoke earlier, particularly Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, about county assemblies---"
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