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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. May I support the adoption of these reports. It is my humble submission that once those reports are adopted, they are going to enable more cash to be transmitted to the counties because this is one of the requisite steps which this Chamber must adopt. Having read those reports, I feel that very good work has been done by the Committee. I do, however, propose a way to improve the way appropriation is done and also the way auditing is done for the resources sent to the various departments in the Government. One, I propose that we increase personnel in the Office of the Auditor-General. I say that because presently we have 47 counties. I doubt whether there is enough personnel capacity to audit each and every county. We also have 290 constituencies where we have CDF money. We have other line Ministries and all those entities are supposed to be audited by the Office of the Auditor-General. Therefore, the Departmental Committee on Budget and Appropriations need to consider ways of appropriating more money to the crucial entity - Auditor-General’s Office - so that we can have better accounting for Government resources. Two, also on that account of how resources should be expended, I have looked at the Chapters that deal with CDF money and one thing that I have realized is that there has been very low uptake of CDF resources. That has everything to do with how Bills of Quantities (BOQs) are usually procured at the constituency levels. There is usually that element of slow preparation of BOQs by the requisite Ministries. We need to come up with better methods so that those entities--- At times, they do frustrate people who administer that fund and, as a result, they may do things which will attract audit queries but the intention was proper. There should be ways of hastening the uptake of resources at the ground level. I foresee that if that is not done, we may also have lots of those issues which are raised in this report. Another crucial aspect that I have noted, and which has been denoted in all those reports, is the issue of purchase of land. There is an elaborate method of purchasing private land where Government intends to do something. Let us say the Government wants to establish a road or a public facility in a land that is owned privately by private entities. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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