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    "content": "are not playing politics but exercising constitutional responsibility to ensure that county assemblies are operating. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is a shame and I have said this over and over again that we like underrating the responsibilities of county assemblies; that as a House, County Executive members and governors can preside over a meeting where they are conspiring with other constitutional offices like the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) to actually deny resources to county assemblies. It is a shame that an independent institution would side with one arm of the county government and not the other. It will be a shame for them to lie to the public that giving money to county assemblies for them to be strong is less important than when they are giving it to county executives, and that, it is a bad thing for them to go for benchmarking, training and capacity building. We must defend county assemblies from this mudslinging campaign and propaganda that is being instigated. I am aware that in a number of county assemblies including Bomet, the county executive led by the governor are doing everything possible to ensure that they frustrate the independent powers of county assemblies to carry out oversight and ensure that planning for the county is what the people told them through public participation that must be carried out in every ward to ensure that the real issues that the people of our counties face are addressed. That is why we must ensure that county assemblies guarantee every ward in the county a certain minimum amount of money for development so that these counties can grow and that we can make a difference. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the amendment to the Motion. Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo who has institutional memory as a former Permanent Secretary and Sen. Obure - former Minister - should be part and parcel of this Committee. They will carry with them institutional memories and come with the intention that they had at that time; go back and dig for the information in the Ministry of Public Works to find out what architectural designs were put in place and what kind of work had already been done by officers in that Ministry. They will then see how that can be translated to institutions in the counties which have dire need for infrastructural development. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you cannot tell counties to remove the little that we have given them for development to build county headquarters. Let us bring them up to speed first for them to be like all the other counties that have those facilities. They can then start from where other institutions started. I congratulate Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo for bringing this amendment and Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki for bringing the substantive Motion. I support."
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