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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will be surprised that even MCAs also want to come up with another bursary, but for what? In all these four categories of people that I have mentioned, there is no data. This means that student “x” can get allocations from the county government, the Women Representative, the MP and the MCA. This is because people do not participate for them to say “For the WEF, we want it to be directed to orphans, who are girls or the boy child. For the county government, we want money to be taken where it belongs, like in building village polytechnics.” Therefore, the idea in Section 4(d), that public views should be taken into consideration before anything is done in our counties, is very important. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you go to most of these counties, you will never get a report that you can make reference to easily. However, I have seen that this Bill now has a provision in Section 8(1), which states that:- “The responsible authority shall prepare an annual report at the end of each financial year.” We expect that some of those reports should be filed in the Senate so that we can have a reference point. I remember there was a time when the entire budget process for Kiambu County was annulled by the courts simply because the people of that county filed a petition before the High Court. They challenged the entire process and said, “We, as the people, were not involved in the passage of that Bill because there was no public participation.” Consequently, the court annulled the entire budget making process. However, once we enact this Bill and it becomes an Act, there will be a clear mechanism that will guide the various entities, from the CDF to the county governments, et cetera . Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I conclude my contribution to this Bill, I know that each county has a County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP) which gives the priorities for each county for the next five years. I believe that one of the key requirements is that before a county government puts the CIDP in place, there should be an effective involvement of the people through public participation. However, the disconnect in the NG-CDF is that there is no clear mechanism on the kind of projects that the MP should give priority to. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was once in a school where I met an MP – I will not name the constituency or the MP – where the members of public just told the"
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