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    "content": "we have supplementary budget, the money that was planned for that particular project will not be available. Clearly, that means the counties will incur pending bills. This is where there is a headache; despite Government saying you should not implement projects without a budget, most of the counties are carrying out projects without budgetary allocations or provisions of budget for particular projects. What do we do about this? Finally are the cancer centres that were proposed which are not in the budget today. Cancer is a killer disease in this country. You will find that people in the far-flung areas, especially Northern Kenya, do not have facilities in those counties to get treatment yet health is a fundamental right. People travel for several kilometres to the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) to get radiology services. We have equipment that was purchased or leased to the counties by the national Government. In some counties, that equipment is just lying. We do not have human resource to manage the equipment. In some cases the human resource is there but the equipment is not there. Hospitals keep on buying equipment without looking at the needs of that county or hospital. We have a big problem as a country. Money is being spent yet Kenyans are not getting service delivery. As a Senate, what was an anomaly in the Eleventh Parliament in terms of our mandate should be corrected in the Twelfth Parliament because we cannot sing the same song year in year out. Human resource is being abused. In Isiolo, for example, the budget for human resource does not tally with what is in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Database (IPPD). It is an area that counties abuse. A lot of money goes into human resource and recurrent expenditure when development is lacking. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will stop at this point but as the Senate, we should audit ourselves at the end of this year or whatever time we will agree on, to ensure that we have corrected anomalies, establish where we are, where we are going and the way forward."
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