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    "content": "currently is that every organisation or everybody is going technological. One wonders why technology becomes a hindrance to doing activities or business. I sit in Senate CPAIC and many are the times when we hear governors lamenting that they are unable to access IFMIS. We do not need to travel from Kirinyaga or Nyandarua counties to come to Nairobi to deal with the issue of technology. It means that technology is not helping us. We need to relook at this animal called IFMIS. If it is the one that is hindering the flow of businesses and activities in the counties, I think it is high time we overhauled it or brought interactive technology. This is because in this century, we cannot have technology that is not helping us in doing business. Madam Temporary Speaker, issues have come up on how we use the money that is disbursed to the counties. We have had governors who have come infront of us telling us about certain projects that are collapsing because no feasibility studies had been carried out before they commenced. One governor told us that they came up with a milk processing plant, but because of variation in the production of milk, some are currently ghost projects. In conclusion, Madam Temporary Speaker, as the Governors get money and do whatever it is that they are doing with it; they also need to take care of the assets that they inherited from the county councils. If this issue is not addressed well, we will be harbouring an issue that will be a serious scandal or a very big corruption issue that has never been witnessed before in this country. Practically, I believe that both the national Government and the county governments need to look at issues from a proactive manner and stop being reactive. In the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments, we complain of being morticians. We want to be physicians. Let the county governments and the national Government be proactive in whatever decisions that they want to take. With those few remarks, Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support the County Governments Cash Disbursement Schedule for Fiscal Year 2018/2019, of course minus the recommendation of the Kshs9.4 billion that is going to the leasing of the hospital equipment. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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