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    "content": "rationalization of the wage bill which is an ongoing process, it would be prudent that we increase the development expenditure to 40 per cent. Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, we have evidence here that governors in counties are wasting funds doing things that they should not do. Therefore, we should not give an excuse on their behalf as to why we should not increase the development budget. Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, we, the Members of the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, are aware that in the next financial year, the counties that have problems with wage budgets would be cushioned by the formula proposed by CRA. So, it is not an excuse to use wages, like in the counties that Sen. Kagwe has suggested, as an excuse not to increase the figure. The CRA has proposed a cushioning that would allow counties like Mombasa County and others that are having problems with their wage bill, up to the point where they have rationalized their wage bill, to be cushioned. For purposes of ensuring that we have prudence, so that then we reduce the work of Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale’s Committee, being busy looking for why money has been wasted, I suggest that we, as a Senate, strongly move this development expense to 40 per cent because we have intrinsic and scientific information from the people responsible. Constitutional office holders like the Controller of Budget have advised that we can increase this gradually so that we can reach the target that we want to do. In my view, 40 per cent is not increasing it unreasonably because it says “at least.” It means that we can get to 40 per cent. Currently, out of the 30 per cent that is there, we have records at the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget showing that several counties have attained that objective. Therefore, out of the principle of majority, the report we have is that over 80 per cent of counties have done over 20 per cent of development expense as proposed in the current legislation. Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I support the amendment as it is so that then we can put these counties working and reduce the waste because we, as a Senate, have put mechanisms by amending the law to ensure that there is available resource for this amendment. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir."
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