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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you have come up with a Bill called The County Printers Bill which has been opposed by everybody. The reason is they want all of us to bring our budgets, our legislation, notices about cattle rustling and everything else to the Government Printer in Nairobi. That is not devolution. Therefore, Sen. Lesuuda I plead with you, please, do not even acknowledge these people who are trying to impede on what you have proposed here. If counties have not been collecting data for the last three years, we should ensure as a Senate that the next county governments can actually have planning best on this. If you look at the County Governments Act, we have proposed that counties would come up with cities. This is special planning. In the Urban Cities Act, we have redefined this. There was a Bill in the Senate about the number of population that you can name a city or urban town in county. How do you do that? Are we going to wait for a census every 10 years to determine what we should do? Do we have to wait for national Government to plan or to tell us how many mothers have delivered for free maternal healthcare so that then you can make planning in your counties? This is not possible. Sen. Lesuuda, please, wish these people well. These things are extremely important. You must ask yourself; how have people been planning without this? You sit on a table like you are under a tree like the way we divide the national cake, you say have this, the other one have this and there is no formula. Committees have been proposed here and if there was a function just like the function of health, Sen. Lesuuda mentioned in Article 6(2), I would add Article 189: Cooperation and Coordination. If there was a part where you need to coordinate by the time you are doing a census, the national Government should be relying on the data collected at the county level. You do not need to bother everybody with huge budgets for nothing. You would rely on that information so that year in, year out, we can stop this national obsession with census every 10 years. It is a national obsession for nothing. By devolving this work will help the country, in fact, to plan in future. How do you plan in future? You can see what Elgeyo-Marakwet is doing in terms of how many babies they are delivering. What do you do in terms of Early Childhood Development (ECD) classes? There was a complaint in some counties like Murang’a that the ECD classes have closed because there are no babies being born as they have been drinking illegal alcohol. So that will help. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, therefore, in terms delivery of services, ensuring that we plan our finances well and making sure that we are prudent, we will actually be asking our county governors to account in terms of planning with statistics. You allocated a borehole to a place where there was no water and you knew it. You went to dig a borehole where it does not deserve, but where there are more boreholes than they need because you wanted political support and you omitted where it was needed most. That is the purpose of statistics. Therefore, instead of challenging people using abstract information, what Sen. Lesuuda has proposed is that, in future, we would be asking them,“this ward has “x” number of population, it has “x” number of boreholes and you have only done one as opposed to two or three.” That is the purpose of statistics. One of the things that Transition Authority (TA) did not do is that all the data that was collected by the former urban councils and town councils was kept in a room where The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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