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    "content": "quash that recommendation by the SRC. Let us hope that this money will not be squandered on houses, luxuries and payment of salaries. How do we oversight? I chair the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments. A week ago, we sat with the chairpersons of the Public Accounts and Investment Committees from all over Kenya. Primary oversight is the responsibility of county assemblies and we must help them to develop that capacity. I have seen a conditional allocation for the Kenya Devolution Support Program. Unfortunately, that money goes to the county executive that already has money. We must find a way of pushing that money to the county assemblies to build their capacity. When we go to Mombasa next week, we must tell Members of County Assemblies (MCA’s) that they must stop suffering from inferiority complex. In the context of devolution, MCAs can be more powerful than Senators. They can appoint, impeach, budget, plan and do all sorts of things that the Senate cannot do. We must tell them that this inferiority complex will bar them from achieving what they are supposed to do. The Senate comes in as secondary oversight. We have had a discussion with the Auditor-General that we must redesign the report that comes to the Senate. We cannot pick all the audit reports that come out of the counties. Each county produces an average of 10 audit reports that are dumped in the Senate. The Senate receives 470 reports for 67 Members of the Senate. We will never be able to clear the backlog if we continue doing things the way we have been doing. Finally, on conditional grants, I still fault the Committee for not accepting the recommendation of the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) to set up two regional cancer centers in this country. We know how great a threat cancer is to this country. I fault the Committee for not accepting the recommendations that had been put by the CRA in the past that education infrastructure for primary and secondary could be sent to counties as a conditional grant instead of going in as a Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). In future, I will be putting a strong case before the Committee to request that counties like Homa Bay, Siaya, Migori, Busia and Kisumu that have more than average HIV prevalence be given an extra allocation to bear the burden of that disease. I had a lot to say within 10 minutes though I have truncated just the way I truncated the poem by Henry Barlow. I support."
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