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    "content": "counties on their expenditure and also on their revenue collection. We do not have to wait for one year to read in a report like this that we are reading now. Mr. Speaker, Sir, pending bills is a huge problem for the incoming Governors, particularly in my area. Many business people have gone bankrupt because they were given contracts in order for somebody to realize some benefit out of it; yet it was very clear that there was no money which could repay that bill. So, most of these traders who went and borrowed materials from shops have now ran into problems, both for the shop owners and also those who have been awarded the contract. Some of these things can be checked if there was a system of proper checks and balances within the counties. Unfortunately, the County Assembly is also not playing its role, because people look at the Senate alone. The County Assembly, which is the right there in the county, is not playing its role properly because they are also sometimes compromised by the Governors. Mr. Speaker, Sir, looking at the report on Garissa County, I find that there is a lot of money spent on entertainment. This emanates from the fact that whenever a governor is going on a tour in a given area, he goes with hundreds of elders, ladies and young men who are his supporters, to show that he is a big man with a big convoy. They are paid allowances yet they are not working for the county government. This could have been nipped if there were auditors on the ground other than the local auditors employed by the counties. In this session, we look forward to being enabled to help our counties run smoothly. With those few remarks, I support."
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