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    "id": 531584,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "id": 1889,
        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "If you look at the recommendation of the Commission on Revenue Allocation, (CRA), the amount it had allocated of Kshs282.4 billion and the overall amount that is being given now, there is a convergence. I want to talk about the money that is going to the county level as conditional grant in terms of healthcare. When His Excellency came here last time, he told us of free maternity services at the grassroots. We expect him to be here tomorrow and I have no doubt that he will mention this. In some healthcare facilities at the rural areas, free maternity services do not exist. I have spent a lot of money in my constituency because the local facilities claim that, that money does not reach them. We are told it is for the cars of the governor. I do not know, but we must follow up this conditional grant. I am sure the governors are listening. This amount of money should reach local dispensaries, so that when it comes to maternal cases, they can have safe deliveries. I also want to talk about the issue of leasing of medical equipment. The Government has gone the way of leasing equipment and a lot of money is going to be spent. Up to now, we have not discussed any policy on hiring. It is, indeed, important for the Ministry in charge to move with speed to bring regulations or policy in terms of hiring of this equipment to this House, so that we can discuss them. If we do not look at the hiring policy, this is going to be room for corruption. We are worried, if we are going to let it go that way, this amount of money that is meant for hiring is going to be a big problem. We have talked several times about the percentage that should go to the recurrent expenditure and how much should go to the development expenditure. We have seen in reports that in some counties, 80 or 90 per cent goes to the recurrent expenditure and zero per cent to development expenditure. It is important for us to follow up this money. We should do monitoring and evaluation, so that those reports can come here for us to establish the percentage of this amount that is going to development expenditure or recurrent expenditure. If we have 90 per cent going to recurrent expenditure, development is going to be very minimal. We also have a lot of wastages. It is good to note that more money has been allocated to the Auditor-General. It is important that they establish their offices at the county level, so that cases of corruption are dealt with at that level. We devolved resources, but corruption was as well devolved. The Auditor-General should have forensic audits on timely basis. We saw the case of the Narok County when the matter was at the Senate. When the Senate demanded an audit from Narok, we saw what the Auditor-General said. It is important to note that more money has gone there. This is 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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