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    "content": "million was allocated on the basis that there was an assessment, then they have gone further ahead to spent an extra Kshs1 billion, way above what should have been the expenditure. In addition, you may also be keen to note the kind of money that has been spent on an item called photocopying and printing. It is unbelievable that they would have the audacity to spent Kshs76 million on printing and advertising. It is indicated in the audited accounts. Owing to the fact that my colleagues have spoken about other issues; the legal fees and so on, in summary, this must be the easiest conduit that is used to fund other activities of governors, including possible siphoning of public funds. Furthermore, for goodness sake, if you look at some of the committees the governors have formed; they have more than 19 committees with several governors sitting in them. What sitting allowances does a governor earn to sit in more than six committees? Some of them are in more than six committees as per the list that they have provided. You may remember that there was a time it was claimed that one county government had gone to the extent of opening a foreign office in a foreign country. One of the committees is on foreign affairs. So, who said that foreign affairs is a devolved function? What would the CoG be up to having a committee on foreign affairs? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, we also need to get clarification from the Auditor-General. Is he under specific instructions from the CoG, that the way and format of reporting on their audit should be special from any other government institution? I say so, because deep down in the report, in one of the pages, at the beginning of it, there are two pages of the photographs of governors and some office holders. I have not seen this in any other audited report. Who told the Auditor-General that the CoG is such a special unit that he should include photographs of governors? Many of us have said that the Auditor-General’s office is moribund. You may remember the debacle we were treated to in Kisumu when these guys painted the town literally red with their photographs, from the airport to the bedrooms of the hotel where they stayed. If this infection has gone down to the Auditor-General, then he needs to answer to this Senate why he finds it befitting to have the photographs. Lastly, I would like to ask the Chairperson of the Committee if it is possible that the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget could initiate the process of coming up with a Bill to regulate the expenditure and contributions by counties to the CoG. If we had that kind of law – this is the Senate – our role pursuant to Article 96 of the Constitution is to cast oversight over funds allocated to county governments. These are such funds. So, it is very much in order for us to pass such a law to ensure that funds which are allocated to counties are used in a proper way by way of legislation which would have been passed by this House."
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