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    "content": "improve county planning. However, the grant is given only to the executives. Who is supposed to monitor public finance management systems in terms of oversight if not the county assemblies? The money that we passed in the last budget has not been sent to counties. Somebody wants to restrict us to a very small corner with only Kshs314 billion which has to be adjusted by 2 per cent. They determine it at the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC) and ask us to pass it. We must say “no” because there are people who are encroaching on the mandate of the Senate. If we do not take pride in this mandate granted to us by the good people of Kenya under Article 96, we will live to regret it because there is nothing governors will enjoy the most than circumventing the Senate and they will do that when the right time comes. While I support the usual practice, we need to find a method of interrogating conditional grants which have increased tremendously every year. Lastly, we do not want this Senate to be in the problem that it was in in 2017/2018. The National Treasury amended the CARA stating that there are problems with the schedules. I have proposed an amendment which I will move to separate the schedules of sharable revenue from conditional grants, since the national Government issues the conditional grants on conditions entered between them and development partners which in most cases have nothing to do with counties. The National Treasury should be told that sharable revenue allocated to counties should be sent on time without any deduction, condition and hindrance from conditional grants which have very little, if at all, to do with counties. Before that amendment comes, the Committee on Finance and Budget will propose that the schedule that comes from The Treasury must be separated. Never again should salaries of workers of counties be delayed for over four months. Never again for the life of the Senate should we allow the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury to come say: “Now that we are broke, we are going to make sure that we allocate revenue to you according to your spending.” We must say no, for the protection of counties under Article 96. It is not politics; it is the law. The law must be followed. With those few remarks, I beg to support. Thank you."
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