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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "Clause 5 talks about giving counties capacity building. Rather than giving them capacity building, they should be assisted to set up their own budget offices. For the Parliamentary Budget Office to assist the 47 counties in capacity building, they may be over stretched. At the moment, counties are only operating with one fiscal analyst and maybe that is why things are going bad. That should not happen. Clause 5 removes Clause (c) and replaces it with a new one. Maybe we should be moving the current Section 35(1)(c) to Section 31(b) because leaving out the Budget Policy Statement wording may not be very appropriate. I will bring amendments to that. It is not right to bypass or contravene Article 222 of the Constitution and the National Assembly. My colleagues have suggested coming up with a lower figure which can be spent without the approval of Parliament. That section should be looked into deeply, so that the powers of Parliament are not by bypassed. Clause 14 is good because it takes care of the delays that could arise when the Senate and the National Assembly do not agree and there is a stalemate. Clause 15 states that:- “Section 52 of the principal Act be amended by deleting subsection (2) and substituting thereof the following new subsection- “(2). Despite the provisions of sub-section (1), the following persons may be authorized by the Cabinet Secretary to execute loan documents for borrowing by a national government entity – (a) The accounting officer responsible for the entity; or The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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