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    "id": 928724,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is a very important Motion which intends to balance the needs of the CARPS vis-à-vis the public wage bill at the county and national level. This wage bill has a direct bearing on the elements of development vis-à-vis the recurrent expenditure. Through the Senate County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC), most of the counties are overboard in their wage bill. Their spending on the wage bill aspect is at the expense of the development priorities for counties. Therefore, there is a mismatch between the county development fund and resources, vis-à-vis the recurrent expenditure resources. One cannot help except to trace the historical perspective of this inherent capacity of CARPS, because the defunct local authorities came over with the number of staff who had not been segregated nor assessed according to their capacities. Consequently, they had not been rationalised to perform certain tasks in accordance with the new devolved system of government. What was in operation then is Cap.265 of the Local Government Act, which was extremely inefficient, because it concentrated resources at the centre rather that at the devolved level. Now that we have new devolution metrics, it is critical that we must match the capacity of those who are involved in delivering the services to the residents of the counties vis-à-vis their salaries. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the law is very clear; that in development, counties must spend 30 per cent of their equitable share and their own-source revenue on development. Short of that, you will run into difficulties in balancing your books. What you receive is what you must spend; you cannot spend more than you receive. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I realise that my time is up---"
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