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    "content": "If you have a complaint, for instance, a mechanism is provided for in Clause 51 which provides that a person may lodge a complaint to the board and anyone found culpable can as well be taken to the police and be charged. We have also ensured that the board will have the power to make regulations, to make better this Act to ensure it operates in a good manner. The First Schedule is the Ward Projects Reallocation, meaning that if you make a project proposal, you can always seek to reallocate if you think that the original idea is not good. We have also the Second Schedule that sets out how to conduct business in the affairs of the board. The Third Schedule is the Ward Projects Submission Form and the Fourth Schedule is the Project Description Form. We have ensured that there is no duplication of projects. Clause 45 of this Bill provides: “The Board shall ensure that no duplication of projects occur particularly where it is prudent to combine efforts on projects designed to benefit a large section of a community which traverses two or more wards’ Therefore, duplication has been taken into account and there will be no duplication if this Bill is passed. Corruption occurs in procurement and Clause 42(1) provides that: “All works and services relating to projects under this Act shall be procured in accordance with the provisions of Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act”. Of course, we have said that projects whose cost is less than kshs500,000 shall be labour contracted. The idea is that if you have small projects, you can do what we call labour contracting and that is also something provided here. On documentation, Clause 43 is very clear and it says that: “The Committee shall compile and maintain a record showing all receipts, disbursements and actual expenditures, on monthly basis, in respect of every project under this Act’. Therefore, we have ensured that there will be adequate documenting for us to check public wastage of resources in case this Bill becomes law. What are the benefits that this country will accrue if this Bill becomes law? The first one is development, for it is going to spur economic growth at the grassroot level. I want to refer you to Clause 107(2) of Public Finance Management Act, 2012 which provides that at least 30 per cent of all monies that is in the hands of the counties, should go to development. That is the law but you will find that law being breached in several counties. There are several counties where you will find that almost 90 per cent of the total revenue goes to pay salaries. We, therefore, needed a law that will secure money for development and this is one of the efforts of ensuring that we have money which goes directly to aid Wanjiku. When you look at this country, it is tilted very unfairly towards poor people. It is a country that is tilted in favor of the people who are in employment or in Government or in some form of a job. To get a good illustration, look at our national budget. Out of 100 per cent of our national budget, 52 per cent goes to pay people’s salaries and when you add what we call recurrent expenditure that is fuel, biros, furniture, that pushes the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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