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    "content": "that we have the second county regimes in place now, I would recommend that we do more on capacity building of the county treasuries’ staff on issues of the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) and Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. Instead of allocating the counties more money, the national Government should also highlight the absorption of development monies. We should also encourage the county government to conduct public participation on project priorities. We should also encourage automation of local revenue collection since what is collected does not reflect the true picture on the ground. On the ground our constituents complain of being charged a lot of money for licenses and taxes, but it is not reflected on the percentages that are collected by the county governments. Therefore, we need to encourage automation of the local revenue collection systems, so that these monies go back to develop our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was looking at the report on Kajiado County Government and there is a blanket allocation with regard to water and irrigation. We are not told which irrigation project was allocated which sum of money. In terms of water, it is not indicating how many boreholes were drilled or how many dams were done and at what cost. With regard to agriculture there is also a blanket allocation. There is no specific project showing the sum allocated to a particular agricultural project. The same case applies to gender, which is my great concern. There is a blanket allocation. It does not show, for example, how much was allocated for women empowerment in how many wards or sub-counties. Therefore, there are no specific allocations in those particular functions. The same applies to land, physical planning and environment. Wildlife was allocated Kshs177 million, but details were not given on how the money was spent. Therefore, in the next report we need to be told the total cost allocated to which project. Finally, at least, there was one issue that encouraged me when I was reading the report on Kajiado County Government. They were able to meet budgetary timelines, which is very important. They were also able to do automation and that is encouraging. I would pray that this time round - in the second term - they should do more with regard to absorption and allocating monies, particularly to functions that can help the common mwananchi in terms of water, natural resources and drought mitigation. Every other time we complain loudly during the dry spell. Therefore, we need to look into that, so that we can ensure development in our counties. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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