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    "id": 867221,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/867221/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "There is need for enhanced oversight, including having a robust monitoring and evaluation framework to safeguard county resources. The House can go further, through the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning, to table amendments to the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act and put safeguards in place in order to reduce the pilferage and wastage of public funds that take place at the county level. We must at all times have a framework to safeguard county resources. That will help us to promote value for money for the benefit and welfare of the people of Kenya. As I conclude, those resources which we are sending to counties should be utilised to create capacity in the asset base and must be guarded against being employed for non- productive, non-priority recurrent activities. There is a lot of investment of the county government resources in non-priority and non-productive recurrent expenditure. We have turned the counties into homes for expenditure. Very few development projects are taking place. Capacity building workshops are needed which will be critical in creating programme-based budgets in the budget-making process. In view of the foregoing, it is time that we audit and review the public finance management process and ensure that the budget cycle, including the public participation and other best practices, are well-integrated for an effective policy design and implementation of the financial systems in our country. This is donor-funded and donors are very critical in funding our development projects. They are partners. How those resources are used at the county level will encourage and motivate the said donors and more donors, both multilateral and bilateral, to pump more money into our counties. For our governors, the ball is in your court. The money is there. Upon assent of this law, please, make sure you properly utilise the taxes by Kenyans and the donor-resources which The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}