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    "id": 935626,
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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, this is an important aspect of the county assemblies. We have created devolution and county assemblies. County assemblies, unless they create three important organs that will be synonymous with the National Assembly, the members of county assemblies (MCAs) will never interrogate anything. They do not have a directorate of legislative and procedural services. Nobody is teaching them how to draft Motions and Bills. County assemblies have no capacity in terms of institutional framework of interrogating the county governments’ budgets. Some of us are proud of the Parliamentary Budget Office. In a minute, they can do better work than the men and women at the National Treasury. So, we need to cascade that and establish the County Assembly Fiscal Bureau, so that when the county executive brings its budgets, the technical team will look at it and advice the county assembly the way our Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning have fiscal analysts who advise them. Without this, devolution will be a waste. That is why there is a lot of wastage and corruption in the counties. There is a lot of theft. The MCAs - with due respect to them - just check in to get their sitting allowances, then guillotine Bills and budgets of county governments. There must be a replication of what happens at the National Assembly. Just in the same way we have a Budget Office, this amendment will ensure that MCAs at the county assemblies interrogate every Bill that comes from the county executives in the county governments and every finance related legislation. So, I support it. I am sure resources will be allocated by the Controller of Budget for the establishment of this bureau. I want to ask the speakers, who are the chairpersons of the county service boards and their clerks, not to recruit their relatives. If you look at the county Attorneys, some of them are not well known lawyers. We want fiscal analysts to be recruited competitively across the country regardless of whether they come from the recruiting county or not. If you give these jobs to your brothers or sisters who scored D+ or C- and went through some fishy universities to get a Bachelors in Commerce (BCOM) because we assume they can be fiscal analysists, we will lose it. This is an important clause. I support the amendment."
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