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    "id": 924641,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "One day here, we were speaking on some areas where we felt that county governments need to improve. For example, we know that many county governments are now collecting a lot of revenue from liquor licensing. However, how are these funds accounted for? We can see areas where they can be used to enhance the livelihoods of Kenyans in the counties. For instance, they could be used to help in the sensitization on the use and abuse of drugs, or to come up with rehabilitation centres for affected Kenyans. They could also be used to run sensitization programmes within schools. There are many areas where these funds could be directed to. It is, therefore, unfortunate that we are seeing underutilization and under reporting of these funds. Madam Temporary Speaker, I could also speak to the failure to establish Internal Audit Committees, in line with the PFMA Regulation No.167. This is obviously clear negligence on the county officers who are mandated to put this into operation. They should be charged for it, because we can see why they are not getting it done. This is where funds get stolen; where loopholes then come in and we can see how our monies get lost. This failure is deliberate and it must be dealt with the full force of the law. We need all our monies properly accounted for. Madam Temporary Speaker, Internal Audit Committees are necessary. Any successful business we know has to have some internal mechanism of self-auditing. This is to check on financial operations and map out risk areas. Without this, you even wonder then how they are running the operations down at the counties. We should call a few County Executive Committee Members (CECM) here to come and answer, in a court of law or similar avenues, on why they have not operationalised these committees. Lastly, Madam Temporary Speaker, is on the incomplete and non-utilised projects. We know failure to plan is planning to fail. I have had experience with this in counties, where you find that poor conceptualization of projects as well as poor 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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