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"content": "In this Report, the revenue analysis of Kajiado County indicates as follows; that during the first nine months of the Financial Year 2018/2019 the county received Kshs4.43 billion as equitable share of the revenue raised nationally; Kshs452.51 million as a total conditional grant, Kshs731.06 million from own source revenue, and also had a cash balance of Kshs1.2 billion for the Financial Year 2017/2018. The total amount of money that was supposed to be available for budget implementation in my county amounted to Kshs6.81 billion. That is for the first nine months of this Financial Year, 2018/2019. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was shocked to read the weaknesses that we have in the management of these resources especially, in the human resource department. I am saying this because Sen. (Dr.) Zani is trying to tighten the loose ends about revenue collection and the management of this revenue. As you know, the management of this revenue is done by none other than the officers that are employed in this county. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, regarding Kajiado County, it is reported that during the year under review, the county executive employed 195 staff in various departments. This included recruitment of the Director, Supply Chain, Deputy Director of Budget - which is what we are talking about, the implementation of this budget - and an Accountant-General, which touches on the core of this Bill that Sen. (Dr.) Zani has brought to this House. The Report indicated as follows- “However, the respective personal files availed for audit did not contain necessary documents to show whether the employees had the requisite skills, qualifications, and competencies as advertised.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is where we are losing money. How on earth do you employ people to manage your resources, and you do not check on their competencies and skills? How on earth can you manage a county in this manner? This Report has also pointed out some weaknesses and it states as follows:- “A further review of the human resource process and documentation showed that the county executive did not have an approved human resource establishment and job evaluation report to guide in the management and utilization of human resource, and to establish the required and optimum number of staff and skills required in each and every department. In addition, the payroll revealed that the county executive staff numbered 2,604 as at 30th June, 2018, out of which 2,594 were in the integrated personal payroll database and 110 in a different payroll for employees on contract terms, which was maintained in an excel software.” This is contrary to Regulation 120(1) of the Public Finance Management County Government Regulations, 2015. Therefore, they have already contradicted the Regulations. Sen. (Dr.) Zani has come up with a Bill to tighten these laws, so that the regulations will ordinarily have to flow from the Act. Therefore, if you have regulations that contradict the Act, they shall then be null and void. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is the record of my county, Kajiado County. It goes ahead to say that:- “In the absence of an approved self-establishment, the county executive is not in a positon to know how many workers were required, how many are in post and how many 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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