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"content": "and participate in the generation of their county’s CIDP for 2018 to 2022, yet they are supposed to oversight. If governors decide to do things that are out of the plan, how will they know? We are aware that there are some county assemblies that are not keen enough and are appendages of sub-departments of the county executives. Therefore, it is important for a Senator to get an opportunity to get this kind of information. For example, a particular governor can go out of the country and meet a flashy, good looking Asian who tells them that they can do a particular project and they sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and before you know it, the matter has been sneaked into the county budget. If a Senator does not have a channel of receiving this information as it is being proposed in this particular Bill, then he or she cannot provide adequate oversight. Very few of us know the specific details of the budget timelines that have been provided and passed by our counties unless we keep a close eye. This is something that we may have to consider as Senators. There being no proper legal mechanism for receiving this information, we should request for it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, one of the things that I have done is that at the beginning of this term, as the Senator for Kericho, I wrote to the Speaker of the County Assembly of Kericho and asked him to supply to my office a similar copy of every report that shall be passed by the county assembly so that I get to read and keep myself abreast. The beauty of it is that with the passage of this Bill, whether I write that letter or not, I will have access to that information. Therefore, this Bill is extremely important and well thought out. I congratulate our colleague, Sen. Wako for thinking it through. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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