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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "need to be recruited, which may lead to abuse of the recruitment process in the absence of open and objective recruitment processes.” This is sad. If you do not even have a management system to know how many workers you have employed and how many you will require, you end up over-recruiting and wasting public funds. That is why Sen. (Dr.) Zani has come up with a Bill, for us to tell these counties that they need to do these systems and regulations right. Somebody, somewhere, must answer to these irregularities. I do not think it can be ignorance for somebody to just wake up and decide not to have a database of employees. This is open to abuse so that, at the end of the day, we just end up siphoning money that belongs to the counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this analysis of Kajiado County, for this particular year alone, tells you why the more we need to strengthen the PFM Act. It also tells us why we should support this Bill, because it will cure many of the malpractices we have currently. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when I looked at the observations and recommendations of the Controller of Budget (CoB), they said that, in fact:- “Kajiado County does late submission of financial reports by county treasury to the Office of the CoB, which affects timely preparation of budget implementation reports, contrary to Section 166 of the PFM Act.” That is the same Act that Sen. (Dr.) Zani is trying to strengthen. It also goes ahead to say that- “There was delay by fund administrators to submit quarterly expenditure reports on the Bursary Fund and the County Assembly Car Loan Fund, contrary to Section 168 of the PFM Act.” There was also low absorption of the development budget. The report states that:- “In the reporting period, the county obtained an absorption rate of 14 per cent compared to 18 per cent in a similar period in the Financial Year 2017/2018.” The county suffers from a low absorption and late reporting, yet the people continue to suffer and cry that there is no water, boreholes and so on. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to come out clearly on this. I support Sen. (Dr.) Zani’s move in coming out clearly to try and make amends to ensure that our counties are run well, in as much as we are also supposed to oversight and ensure that county assemblies do not further violate the PFM Act. Therefore, I strongly feel that my county has not done well; they have done so badly and should improve. I beg to support Sen. (Dr.) Zani’s amendment to improve on the PFM Act."
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