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    "id": 666372,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/666372/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1889,
        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
        "slug": "chrisantus-wamalwa-wakhungu"
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    "content": "“Each county treasury shall reflect all the transfers by the national Government.” In that particular Senate Sitting, when the Governor was asked to show the Report of the revenues in terms of transfer, he did not do it. When the Auditor-General goes to the respective counties for purposes of audit, they do not pay attention to these details. It is the highest time to put a measure in place to deal with the Auditor-General. There are a lot of corruption cases that are going on in that Office. That is an independent Office which we have allocated enough funds. When it comes to reports, they do not come on timely basis. I want to mention something about conditional funding. When you go to counties, many of the grants are going to the health sector. When you visit the health sector at the county level, there are no drugs. The Jubilee Government has been talking about free maternity. It is embarrassing when mothers go for maternity services and they are told to pay. This has been demonstrated by the Chairman of the Council of Governors (CoG), His Excellency Peter Munya, the Governor for Meru. We must have a clear framework to show at what level that money is given to the county governments. In as much as good policies have come up at the national level, at the grassroots level, there is no issue of free maternity and that has to do with administration. As we increase counties’ revenue, they must be held accountable."
}