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    "id": 867220,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, this law is about implementation of the approved budget in terms of programmes and project delivery as well as overall absorption capacity. It is a concern. As we pass it here, there is a serious concern that donor funding and everything else are coming six months after we passed the Budget for the Financial Year 2018/2019. It is also important to note that the proposed amendment, which is in line with the amended Division of Revenue Act 2018 increases the total conditional allocation to county governments from Kshs33.24 billion to Kshs36.9 billion meaning that there is an overall increase in allocation to counties towards implementing key programmes and projects. So, we are giving more money to counties, to the tune of Kshs36 billion extra in the form of conditional grants. So, devolution is working. It is getting more resources. More and more money is being sent to programmes and projects in the counties. We hope that the people of Kenya in the 45 counties will get value for this money. However, and on account of the Report of the Auditor-General, there are serious accountability concerns around the utilisation of the county expenditure and public expenditure in general. If you look at the Auditor-General’s report from the counties, which has been tabled in the Senate, there are serious accountability concerns on the utilisation of the county expenditure. There are serious risks emerging in the sense that there are a lot of resources which are being lost at the county level. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you are the Vice-Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Indeed, most of the indicators of the public expenditure and financial accountability point to a very weak fiscal governance structure at the county level. The fiscal structure at the Treasury and the finance departments at the county level look very weak in terms of governance."
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