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    "id": 946478,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "This is why most county governments have got a lot of pending bills, which should not be there. Therefore, when we are thinking about this matter as a House, we have to figure out whether it will be proper for us to introduce a different IFMIS system or accounting system for county governments, which is different from the national Government system. We have seen a few improvements in the subsequent years, but the problem of doing postmortem is that there is really nothing we can do now. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the reports of the 2013/2014 Financial Year, you will find that in most cases, there are issues of the defunct county councils, records missing and different accounting systems being used. The book keeping system by county governments was based on the Local Authority Integrated Financial Operations Management System ( LAIFOMS), and they are now looking at a different system on IFMIS. These were, therefore, the various challenges that these county governments were facing. Needless to say, despite the fact that these county governments were facing these challenges, there was a clear misunderstanding of the roles of the governors. Some of them looked at themselves as mini-gods, where they could spend the money as they wished and did not have to account to anyone. In some counties, you will find that a county government will have about 20 or 30 accounts, yet, the law is very clear on those accounts. The law stipulates that all money collected must be put into the revenue account. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we progress, for us to improve on service delivery for county governments, this House must now come up with proper legislation and amend the PFM Act so that we can adopt an accrual system of finance to help these county governments. When we stand here and lament about mismanagement of funds in the counties, if we cannot give them solutions, we will not be doing anything. With those few remarks, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to second."
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