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    "id": 705665,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/705665/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it has been emphasised by my colleagues who spoke before me that with devolution, good management is necessary to ensure that we succeed. For us to succeed in having proper service delivery to our people, we require qualified personnel. We also need to empower our people, so that they are in a position to perform the duties. The assignments that are given to our people to implement development projects at the counties are enormous. It is, therefore, important not just to give the mandate, but also to prepare the officers to do the work. We must get qualified people. Proper guidelines and laws should be set out for the implementation of these functions. I, therefore, join my colleagues who spoke before me and emphasise the point that it is necessary for us to move forward and pass this bill, so that our people can enjoy the services. there has been mismanagement and theft of resources at our counties and some officers have hidden under the ambiguity of the laws at the assemblies. This has prevented successful investigation and prosecution of suspects. The provisions of this bill will ensure that the management of county activities is in accordance with the law. for example, we have seen that some MCAs, who are responsible for oversight and undertaking similar functions like those of the national assembly, have no capacity to do so, yet they are expected to oversee the county governments. Some of them have not been able to implement the functions. In fact, it would have been necessary for us to ensure there are minimum requirements for one to be an MCA. This is where we deal with basic issues that relate to the people at the grassroots. We, therefore, need to have people who have a certain level of understanding, can interact and identify what the people need, so that these issues are factored in the development agenda of the counties through the devolved funds. For instance, in Bungoma County, some of the items that have been procured at abnormal costs are said to have been approved by the county assembly by way of budget estimates. Even when they have investigated those misappropriations, the reports have endorsed them. My county has been popular with wheelbarrows which were bought at kshs110,000 each. A wheelbarrow is used on construction sites and it is the one that when you push and stop, it cannot move alone until you push it again. We are told that it cost kshs110,000. We have had shameful expenditure. i am told when the anti-corruption team visited Bungoma, one officer was found with about kshs10 million under 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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