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    "content": "and see what is happening. We thought that such issues would be raised in audit reports. However, in audit reports that we are getting, we do not see this kind of malpractices being highlighted. This is because the auditors just go and look at the books which are mostly in order because whoever is engaging in the malpractice knows that no fault will come from the books. However, the county assemblies should do physical audits of projects and see whether work is truly being done. The other issue is on revenue collection. We have realized that the governors are concentrating on the national Government equitable share. They are not talking about the revenue being generated at the counties. Most of them are collecting less than what the local authorities were collecting. We are told that the counties now bank those funds in their own accounts. The accountability for those funds is not there and that is a serious issue. We created the county governments with a vision that they would in time generate enough funds to be self-sufficient, but it is the other way round. Counties are even stopping the collection of whatever the local austhorities were collecting. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, our concern for the counties should not end with this Petition. We should seriously look into all the other counties so that we can streamline this malpractice that is spreading in the counties."
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