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    "speaker_name": "December 2, 2015 SENATEDEBATES 24 Sen. Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I again, have the permission of the Senate Majority Leader to move the following Motion which is No. 13 on the Order Paper. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion: AWARE that Regulations for the County Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment Fund are in the process of being gazetted; Further aware that the Regulations provide for a Senate Select Committee to administer the Fund; Now, therefore, the Senate resolves to appoint the following Senators to the Senate Sessional Committee on County Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment Fund:- 1. Sen. Kiraitu Murungi 2. Sen. (Prof.) John Lonyangapuo 3. Sen. Stephen Sang 4. Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Karue 5. Sen. Adan Fatuma Dullo 6. Sen. George Khaniri 7. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Junior 8. Sen. Boy Juma Boy 9. Sen. (Dr.) Agnes Zani Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first, in moving the Motion, I would like to remind my colleagues, that you are all aware that we have been involved in a long and difficult struggle to try to raise some resources to enable the Senate perform some functions under Article 96 of the Constitution, basically oversighting the funds allocated to county governments from the national resources. We sought an initial fund of Kshs1 billion to be allocated to the Senate for the purposes of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of the funds that have been allocated to various counties. This exercise is very important because there has been massive looting, theft and wastage of funds at the county level under the supervision of some of our governors, giving us what is now popularly known as “devolution of corruption”. For this country to play its rightful role in safeguarding the interest of our counties, it is very important that this fund is set aside for us to enable us know what is happening in our counties. To cut the long story short, I would like to inform Senators that finally there is some light at the end of the tunnel. The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) is meeting on Friday this week. From the report that I have heard, it has been agreed in principle that the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) will do an internal reallocation of its funds, to give us some of these money so that we can start the monitoring and evaluation exercises within our counties. The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) is only waiting for approval of this request from the Treasury. They have already written a letter to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) – Treasury. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like my colleagues to join me in thanking the leadership of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) Chairman, Justin Muturi, and the Members of the Parliamentary Service Commission, including our very able 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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