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    "id": 928717,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "I am much obliged, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. However, I will have to skip some of the things that I wanted to say. The question is; have these counties complied with that regulation? Do they table reports to their respective county assemblies? I doubt if they do that. If the governors had been put on their toes, then a governor who is serving his second term would know that there are such consequences if they do not meet those thresholds. We also need to ask ourselves if the Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) are up to the task. Do they know what they are supposed to do? On average, all county governments spent Kshs130.97 billion on personnel emoluments by July 2016/2017, which is 61 per cent. In the Financial Year 2017/2018, the Governor for Turkana County had his percentage at 45.86 per cent, but he increased it to 49 per cent by the third quarter of the Financial Year 2018/2019. If this continues, we will not have money. When a county gets to 65.14 per cent, like in the case of Wajir County, it means that the Governor will only be left with 35 per cent. The question is; will he use that money for development or for recurrent cost, medical, agriculture, business development and service delivery? The law requires him to use 35 per cent for emoluments, 35 per cent for recurrent cost and 30 per cent for development, yet there is a county that is already using 65 per cent for emoluments. What are they doing with the remaining 35 per cent? What is shocking is that the 65 per cent is used to pay people for doing work that can be done by people who should be paid 35 per cent. Is that good use of our money? The Committee on Finance and Budget should call all the governors and ask them to account for the money. We can even have a Kenyan walk to a court of law and seek that the governors be charged so as to have them deliver services to Kenyans. There is no justification for this, especially the governors who had already met the threshold, such as the governors for Machakos and Turkana counties."
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