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    "id": 674838,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chepkwony",
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        "legal_name": "Hellen Chelangat Chepkwony",
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    "content": "assemblies can do. They do not know that the budget approvals by the county assemblies are very important. This Bill will bring sanity to the counties and powers to the assemblies so that they manage the Executive who are messing up with the financial status of the counties. As I speak, we find that because of the Executive having so many powers, there are projects in the counties where they are exaggerated for example, building of roads because the Executive controls the budget. You find that the budgets which are put on the roads are so exaggerated that very few roads are being done yet they have enough finances to run various ministries. This Bill will help the county assemblies know their roles. For example, in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, some county assemblies do not know the roles and the powers they have in legislating about what is happening in various departments for example the tea industry, sugar industry or coffee industry. You find that the county assemblies do not know that that is purely their roles. By bringing this Bill, it will show that the county assembly responsibilities are clearly stated and they are able to manage. As of their education, we know most of the county assemblies came from the local authorities which were then municipal councils, town councils and county councils. You see now, they will be controlled because they used to fight so much but we have seen few counties doing the same thing. By bringing up the issue of qualifications, it will now show the leadership and the making of legislation will become very easy for the counties. We know that they came from the local authorities but because they did know their roles and powers, that is why they are continuing fighting in the county assemblies. We also know that MCAs in some other counties were not even free to oppose the governor because they knew the powers of the governor. They knew the governor was so powerful that whatever he said they had to say “yes” to it. With this new Bill, I hope the governors will be tamed by the county assemblies. We are happy. We can now see the work of the Senate because it had been blaming the governors without coming up with any solution to deal with affairs of the county assemblies. But with this Bill, we see that the senators are trying to oversee the governors. In future, I hope we shall not be summoning the governors to come and tell us how they have used their finances. This Bill is very important to our counties and to our people on the ground because these people at the county assembly are the ones manning our people on the ground. It is like a nursery school child where you have to mould the child when she is still very young so that she can be better student when she comes to upper classes. We need the county assemblies to be moulded in the right way. We want to thank the Senate for bringing this Bill so that we can mould our counties in the right direction. There will be no complaints of money because we are putting a lot of money to the counties. By that, we need this money to be utilised in the right manner. Without proper legislation, we cannot do anything at the counties. With this Bill, it is going to help us to see that the counties are well managed and well planned for the future generation. With those few remarks, I want to support the Bill."
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