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    "id": 921928,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen.M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Finally, as I mentioned earlier, we must have a proper transition out of LAIFOMS. The IFMIS must be made to capture details of own-source revenue, and that module exists. I do not understand why, every year, we allocate IFMIS billions of shillings in the budget, yet we are not able to activate the module that will do own-source revenue recognition. Just the same as budgeting, the cases of Kiambu and the other counties that have the national Government projects in their budget execution reports, those reports came from IFMIS. We must ask ourselves whether, on IFMIS, we are pouring money down the drain. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even when it comes to e-procurement, you have a bigger advantage over many of us because you have been out there, at some point in your life, in the counties where we have the theatre of procurement and action. We know that there is a lot of frustration when it comes to e-procurement. For instance, that someone coming from the remotest corner of Samburu County, who is a service provider, will not be able to compete with a service provider who lives in Nairobi. This is because all these things are now being done on the e-procurement platform, and the person in Nairobi will definitely have an advantage. We must, therefore, find a way of ensuring that the e- procurement module of IFMIS works, not just for the mighty, but even for the small suppliers out there in the counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, earlier on in my Statement as the Chairperson of the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee(CPAIC), I alluded to the ruling of the Court of Appeal on the issues to do with own-source revenue. The Court made an observation that the Senate should only be oversighting nationally allocated revenue, and that county assemblies should oversight locally generated revenue. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you look at Turkana County, it receives close to Ksh11 billion from the Exchequer, and only generates Kshs100 million locally. That means that the County Assembly of Turkana will be restricted to one per cent of the budget, yet they are responsible for a 100 per cent of the budget. If the county assembly is responsible for coming up with the budget, then we cannot restrict them to only one per cent of that budget. That is why I said, on advice from our legal counsels, that we have decide that, that observation was obiter dictum. It is not binding because it was not captured in the orders that were issued by the Court of Appeal. 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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