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"content": "However, when you do a reality check, you will find that the kinds of facilities available at any given point are pathetic. We want to avoid this callous type of approach in service delivery to our populations. The most sensible thing we can do, as the senate, is to have quality statistics that will help us make quality decisions. Therefore, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the establishment of the County Statistical Office is a welcome sign and we should embrace it with speed. We should dissect it and find out who the users of the data we are collecting and who the suppliers are. This data will also be critical for our research institutions because for any meaningful development to occur, you need to have correct research. Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud always says that you should get your County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) before you can use any money allocated or devolved to you. Okay, they sit; like I know they did yesterday in my county, where the whole County Executive was sitting, looking at the CIDP. My major interest would be that by the end of this exercise when all has been said and done, I want to look at the CIDP to find out what they have done in terms of the 2018/2019 programme of planning, and how they intend to use those resources. It is only through this process that I can oversight them and know, from what they said they would do in their CIDP, because those are clear statistics. For instance, you wanted to put up so many cattle dips, which you have not put up; you wanted to drill so many boreholes, but you did not drill them; you wanted to set up so many health facilities in particular areas, but you did not set them up; or you wanted to do so many roads in certain wards that you did not do. That way, the oversight exercise becomes a better tool to rein in on those who do not follow the CIDP programme of any given county. It also becomes easier for the Auditor-General to follow through and see whether they have followed the normal path or not. As I said earlier, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, statistics is like an artery in the body that supplies blood to the brain, stomach, lungs and the feet, regardless of what position you are holding. Whether you are standing upright or upside down, the supply still continues. Therefore, statistics must be like an artery in any county so that, at any given time, you can say that the delivery of various essential services for that county must be accomplished within a given period of time. It is also one way of checking on the quality of governance of county governors and executives. Have they understood the jobs that they have been given? It is also one way of measuring the poverty index of any given county and to check if they have made any discernible progress in the use of resources availed to them. Therefore, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I fully support this Bill and hope that they will see it in the light of making our operations better at the county level, more so in the use of the resources that have been availed to the county and alleviating the burdens. These may be the burdens of disease, water shortage or whichever other burdens we want to alleviate in those counties caused by lack of those facilities. With those few remarks, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this Bill."
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