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    "id": 531585,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "going to play a very critical role as far as improving efficiency and effectiveness of the Auditor-General is concerned. This is going to give room for the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. As they discuss different issues, my humble request is that they come up with county fiscal policy papers, which should be in line with Budget Policy Statement. Many times, when you look at the county fiscal policies, they are not aligned to the Budget Policy Statement. It becomes a mismatch.We cannot achieve our priority goals, for example, the Vision 2030. It is, indeed, important that as the counties come up with their county fiscal policies, they are aligned to the Budget Policy Statement which highlights the key priority areas when it comes to the issue of Government priorities. Another issue that I wanted to mention is the money for the maintenance of roads. We know very well that there is a big conflict between KERRA and KURA at the county level. In many cases, the governors play smart and say that the money that is allocated to KURA and KERRA come in through them. This is very wrong. This money is going there as a conditional grant on the issue of roads. The county governments should come out clearly, so that there is no confusion. KERRA and KURA are under the constituency level. In many counties, you find governors parading KURA and KERRA, but in terms of the money that has gone there, we do not have any explanation about it. It is, indeed, important that Kenyans know all this. We need to know the limits. Now that the percentage of the allocation to the counties has gone up, we want to see more projects on the ground. We want to see better facilities and service delivered to the wananchi at the grassroots. We have been saying that we want more money to be allocated to the counties and you see that 37 per cent is going to the counties. As time goes by, more money should be devolved to the county. This is the critical part that the"
}