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    "id": 957104,
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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. On matters of principle, the Constitution spells out 15 per cent of the most recent audited accounts. That is the area we must amend. This is because it should be based on the annual budget rather than on the last audited accounts. If we have anything to go by, that is the first assault we must make. On the second assault, let us look at the PFM and operational Act and be able to realign it with the mother constitutional Clause 203(3). That is the first approach as the Senate that we must do in order to save all this headaches. What we can do as the Senate is to focus our mind and amend that piece by saying, once and for all, let us have budget allocation to county governments on the basis of the last annual budget like now, the annual budget for the Government is Kshs3.2 trillion. If we say 35 to 40 per cent of that, we will have no quarrels or shows between the Senate and the National Assembly. Three, I hope that my county that has got only a nominal Kshs80 million increase will be able to use this money transparently. There is a lot of this money being wasted on recurrent expenditure, on the wage bill. We, as the Senate, now must strive in order to deal with ceilings. One of these ceilings is to fall within the law, that counties should not have more than 30 or 35 per cent of their expenditure on salaries. We should put a cap on that. The development budget must at all times, in any given venture, be 30 per cent minimum so that we are able to effect development in our counties. If we live these counties on free parole then the kind of corruption and wastages we will see will be very high."
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