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    "content": "of funds---. In future this House and the National Assembly have to ensure that the Office of the Auditor General is given enough funds to do their work. The other aspect of frustration is that we have noticed that in the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee that the people who are doing the audit seem to selectively pick items of what the Governor and their governments are doing. They seem to select soft spots. So, you find whereas Senators who are representatives of various counties are aware of big embezzlement, what eventually reaches the Senate Committee through the audit are in most cases peanuts. You will notice in the last year or so, there are a lot of whistle blowers around the counties; whistle blowing on what they are seeing and they do not understand why the Senator has not tackled them. The reason is that the audit staff are leaving out the elephants and picking only the rabbits in the activities in the counties. Therefore, this brings me back to the Sang Bill which had proposed the establishment of a County Development Board. The leadership in the county would go through the activities of the county governments before the audits are done. I would urge that it is about time the Sang Bill is revisited by this House. I believe looking at the mood in this House, the National Assembly and the public at large, the County Development Board will have more support from everyone. This will enable us to look at these issues and facilitate the Senator who would be the eye of the Senate in the county. The reason is because by the time the issues come before the Committee, we would dutifully invite the Senator for that county and he would give an insight as to what happened on the ground. Mr. Speaker, Sir, last but not least, when funds are being allocated for recruiting more staff and facilitation of the various committees, the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee should be given enough consideration. The secretariat we have is far inadequate considering the amount of work they have to do. Therefore, they should be given special consideration. With those few words I beg to support."
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