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    "content": "Again, the verification of pending bills is only happening in counties where they have had new governors. But there are ten or so counties where the incumbents were re- elected into office. What is happening in those counties? So, I believe that the Senate, these committees we are proposing and the Finance and Budget Committee will have to give certain guidelines and directions so that we have a verification exercise that is not done by the same culprits and which is also time bound. Certain counties have said they are not paying bills until audits are done. But in there, there is a woman who probably delivered goods worth Kshs100,000; and that is all she needs to be paid to take her children to school; yet they are being told that Kshs92 billion of pending bills has to be audited. I call upon the Senate to consider that matter and provide appropriate guidance to county governments to ensure that the suffering of our people is reduced. Madam Temporary Speaker, in terms of looking at the future, the monitoring and evaluation framework that we have talked about is an idea that we must make sure it is implemented in this Second Session of the Second Senate. Otherwise, we will be what we have said we should not be; which is to be morticians; we will be coming in after the fact. Your office of the Speaker holds the key to resolving this matter. We have said it before, that the challenge is neither technical nor legal; the challenge is political. We will be relying on the office of the Speaker to help us break this stalemate because the regulations are ready. We set up a special task force that was chaired by Sen. Dullo, which has done an excellent job. I will not talk about or pre-empt what the committee has done, but I believe that the committee has put in a lot of effort to make sure that we guide this House accordingly on monitoring and evaluation. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Sessional Committee on County Public Accounts and Investment should also go to mashinani . We now need to see the Senate"
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