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    "content": "from where we derive the word Serikali, was because everything was a secret. I was pleasantly surprised the other day during the Solai dam investigation when it turned out that this country does not have experts trained on disaster management. The only persons trained in this area are in the military. The Cabinet secretary told us that they are prepared to train counties, the police, the National Youth Service (NYS) and everybody on disaster response, recovery, et cetera . However, when I inquired about how many of our soldiers are trained on this, she told me “I am sorry, Senator; it is a top secret.” Then I thought; wait a minute, this is the quote of the day! You spend public resources to train Kenyans to become experts and we do not know how many they are? That is what I am talking about. As far as I am concerned, the number of soldiers who are trained to deal with disasters in this country cannot be a top secret. Information on the ammunition we are keeping, the tankers or the F16 fighters that we have can be a secret. However, the number of Kenyans we have trained cannot be a secret. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and Budget is here. How many counties have formed the Inter Budget Council, as stipulated under Section 37 of the Public Finance and Management Act, 2012? The last time we checked, they were 23. Most of you do not even know the budgets of these counties. I know that Makueni County has passed a budget of Kshs8.9 billion. However, if you ask me about the details of that budget, I will not tell you because we were excluded from that process. Therefore, this framework is important. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must revive the Bill by Sen. Sang that was defeated, but with less politics. We should have a platform where we should share information. We want to know how much kitty every Member of a Constituency has so that we do not have a duplication of funds and roles. This Bill was rejected at the time, but even now that we 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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