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    "content": "programme of Kshs1 billion, that is a lot of money. We need to quantify the schools in which this feeding programme has taken off, so that we have that data. The employment of 5,000 teachers was allocated a whopping Kshs2.3 billion and CDF was allocated Kshs35.2 billion. There is a fund that has been mentioned as ‘orphans” and it is not clear what that fund is for. It was allocated Kshs9 billion. Ongoing road construction has been allocated Kshs55.8 billion. We need to have these two parallel systems of development at county and the national level moving in such a way that is consistent because, at the end of the day, we are moving to build Kenya. I want to look at the provisions of Article 5(3), which talks about the transferring of these specific funds that are going to be transferred from the County Revenue Fund. This is going to be assessed after meeting with the Cabinet Secretary. There will be reports and budget estimates that have to be made which are very critical and important. Article 7 of the Constitution, states that the National Treasury shall cause to be published a monthly report on the actual transfers. This is where we have a big problem because most of these transfers should be streamlined through Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). However, for one reason or another, we are getting double coded messages. On one side, we are getting a message that IFMIS is running in the counties, but still there is a lot of money that is not being accounted for. We need to look at IFMIS programmes and find out what is happening, so that, at the end of the day, counties can be transparent about the amounts of money that are going in, the disbursements that are going out and what is happening. I remember the Auditor-General’s report of millions and sometimes billions of shillings that have not been accounted for. Looking through the schedule, there is an encouragement because some of the 47 counties have more increment than others. For example, some counties do not have such a big increment, like Lamu have an allocation ratio of only 0.8 per cent. Other counties, for example, Vihiga, have an increment of allocation ratio of 1.49 per cent. That suggests a very slight increase. It is encouraging that all have increased, but some counties seem to have had a much larger increase. For example, a county like Nakuru at 1.12 allocation ratio, is experiencing Kshs1billion more than what they got in 2014/2015 Financial Year. That notwithstanding, at least each county has something substantial in its docket which can be used in various ways. The Second Schedule is the conditional additional allocations to county governments from the national Government. These are funds that have been given comparatively looking at 2014/2015 Financial Year. Even in these estimates, they have an increase. When you look at the total condition allocation that has been given to the national Government and for Level 5 hospital for 2014/ 2015 Financial Year; we have specific counties which also exhibit increments. At that point, that money was specifically actually used for Level 5 hospitals. Each of those counties that had those Level 5 hospitals, including Embu, Garrisa and Kakamega have had an increase. Some have a bigger increase than others."
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