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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thirdly, as the Sen. Yusuf Haji and Sen. Amos Wako Committee continues gathering views from various sectors and sections of Kenyans, we encourage them to make sure, as colleagues before me have said, that this House is restored and given its rightful position in a devolved system. Equally important, the challenges of the counties today, apart from lack of accountability which we have already taken responsibility from what my colleagues have said, is also inadequacy of resources. I have argued many times, and I would want to convince this House, that as we move on to the future, sharable resources should be based on annual budgets and not on historical accounts. When resources go to the counties, as the national Government spends, the counties must also have corresponding resources for functions assigned to them. However, that does not mean that this House or Kenyans are giving a blank cheque to county managers who have engaged themselves in obscene behaviour in terms of unaccountability. Mr. Speaker, Sir, looking at Article 96 of the Constitution, there is no provision there that this House only waits to look at what has been spent. There is none. We must adopt the American style of budget tracking; that you give money and at every stage it is spent, you are there to see and check whether it is being spent properly or not. Otherwise, we will continue lamenting, carrying out postmortems and calling each other names. You call somebody names, after a short while, he is out of office, a new one comes, you forget the past and you move on. This is not the way to go. We have seen governors who walk into office without a second shirt and in a year, they are billionaires."
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