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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "addressing leakages, poor revenue policies and practices that hinder economic optimization in counties. (7) The delay in disbursement of funds has affected budget implementation in counties. The current Cash Disbursement Schedule approved by the Senate in line with CARA, 2017 was not adhered to, as allocations such as the equitable share were not released according to the expected timeliness. Huge amounts of funds were released barely two months to the end of Financial Year 2017/2018. These delays hamper implementation of development projects, partly resulting into accommodating of pending bills, thus affecting overall service delivery in the counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, the Committee recommends that- (1) The National Treasury should fast-track the formulation of the policy on county government‟s revenue mobilization measures and submit to the Senate by 30th April, 2019. This policy has been submitted, as I said earlier. We need to consider it as a Senate. (2)The National Treasury should adhere to the Cash Disbursement Schedule to ensure timely release of funds to promote predictability of transfers to counties and allow adequate time for absorption of development allocations. (3) The Controller of Budgets should engage the relevant stakeholders, including the Senate, National Treasury and Council of Governors (CoGs) with view of developing measures of alleviating the following persistent challenges facing county governments- (a) late submission of financial reports by counties (county treasuries and accounting officers) to the Controller of Budgets, which then leads to late submission of the statutory report by the Controller of Budget to Parliament; (b) poor internet connectivity affecting operational systems, such as Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS) and E-procurement; (c) high and increasing pending bills; (d) under collection of own source revenue; and, (e) high and increasing expenditure on personal emoluments. (4) The Controller of Budgets should adopt a programme based reporting framework, as provided for in Section 9 of the Controller of Budgets Act, 2016. (5) The county treasury should formulate a mechanism to ensure pending bills are cleared as a fast charge in the succeeding financial year. (6) The National Treasury should submit to the Senate the implementation status of the projects financed through conditional grants from loans and grants from development partners. (7) The CoGs and the County Assemblies Forum in consultation with the relevant stakeholders should engage the Senate on legislative and policy interventions, which are necessary to enable budget implementation with regards to- (i) own source revenue; (ii) pending bills; and, (iii) absorption of development expenditure. (8) The county governments that had surpassed the recommended threshold of expenditure on wages and benefits for public officers (as prescribed in the Public Finance Management-County Governments Regulations, 2015) should- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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