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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was not alerted. It is called digital rigging. On the cash disbursements, the BPS proposes that in that last financial year, we spent Kshs12 billion on the elderly people. Where is that money? Where are the regulations? Every time you are in the counties, you are asked about this money. Now the figure in the BPS has remained the same. I asked the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Treasury this question. He made a statement that since the money for laptops – Kshs17 billion or so - by the Jubilee Government has not been spent, it should be reallocated to another function, yet in this Policy Statement, the same figure that appeared last year is appearing again in those figures. Senators, this is the opportunity for you to say that this money that is not being spent should be not be allocated to national functions. We should allocate this money to county functions, so that under Article 187, the functions that have been devolved can have resources that follow them. Under Chapter Six, the Government says that one of the pillars of this BPS is strengthening counties. Strengthening counties includes increasing the money for auditors, hospitals and functions that would help these county governments to work. For example, they have said that one of the things they are thinking, which I must highlight, because it is also in this fiscal responsibility of the revenue sharing formula--- They have suggested that the counties that raise money well should be given an incentive. Why would you give an incentive to people who already do not want to collect revenue? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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