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    "id": 719779,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "The problem is that all these monies appropriated via the Division of Revenue Bill and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill by both the Senate and this House all go to the County Revenue Fund (CRF). When they go there and they are not ring-fenced for the health sector, the county governments use that money for other purposes. We do not know, for instance, how much money is appropriated by this House for Level 5 hospitals like the Garissa Provincial General Hospital (PGH). Therefore, we must, as a House, ring-fence the health sector. Secondly, we should not allow health allocations to go into the County Revenue Fund. Many wrong things are happening. Doctors are recruited based on nepotism. If you do not come from that county you do not work in that hospital. All the challenges we are facing is because we have not set the right procedures. Further, the funds should have specific accounts. After we remove the money for the health sector from the CRF, we must decide that every hospital in that county is sent direct allocation. That way, the hospitals will operate. The expenditure performance of the counties is above average but the Development Expenditure is lower than the Recurrent Expenditure. Most of the money we send to counties is used on Recurrent Expenditure and this trend must change. The bottlenecks in the absorption of the development fund are very evident in all the counties. The proportion of compensation of employers to the total expenditure is above the 35 per cent threshold set out in the PFM Act. In 2015/2016, the total compensation to employees in county governments amounted to 40.2 per cent in total expenditure. This was above the threshold given in the PMF Act, which is 35 per cent. You will find there are unutilised funds at the end of every financial year with a huge absorption being pending bills. Most of these governors will leave office – I know most of them will leave office - and face prosecution in future. Most of them are leaving huge pending bills to the tune of Kshs5 billion. The incoming governors will have to verify some of these things because there are pending bills but there are no on-going projects. I am sure Hon. Junet will agree with me that there is a serious problem in Migori as it is in Trans Nzoia, Garissa and other places. So, there is no development, but there are many pending bills all over - God save Kenya. The proportion of pending bills is very high. For instance, at the end of 2015/2016, the total unutilised funds amounted to Kshs48 billion. Out of this unutilised fund of Kshs48 billion, Kshs 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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