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"speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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"content": "must be very honest with the Constitution. It is illegal for the National Treasury to violate the Constitution. The Equalisation Fund is found in the Constitution for certain areas and for specific projects like water and electricity. The National Assembly is just sitting and does not comply with the Constitution. Every year, we allocate money to the Equalisation Fund, but we are not getting it. It is not going to the recipients. I think the Budget and Appropriations Committee, through the Chair of the Committee on Implementation, must act. The resolution of the House based on the Constitution must be implemented. Let us not cheat ourselves. County governments are getting conditional grants of Kshs53 billion from the national Government share of revenue. Allocation from Fuel Levy Fund is Kshs9.4 billion. Today, if you go to our counties, the rural roads are not being done and here we are allocating Kshs9.4 billion to county governments. You cannot move from one village to the other. We are allocating billions to referral hospitals, the Level 5 hospitals. Today, if you go to Kisumu, Garissa, Mombasa, Nyeri and Embu, the situation in those Level 5 hospitals is very deplorable. Kiambu is one of them. The House that has been mandated to oversee the counties, our neighbour, the Senate, is busy discussing petitions and statements and going on trips. We are now lucky there is coronavirus. The Senate and the county assemblies must make sure the money is found. Kenyans will be shocked. Since the advent of devolution under President Uhuru Kenyatta to date, Kshs1.9 trillion has been transferred to county governments. I ask this question: Can you trace that money on the ground? Apart from the salaries that our people are getting, Kshs1.9 trillion has been allocated to county governments to date. We must ask if the value for that Kshs1.9 million is found. We must assess as a country whether devolution is working. There are people who assume and say that salaries are being paid. Those of us who were in this House in the 10th Parliament know that one of the reasons why we supported the 2010 Constitution was because of devolution. We wanted to decentralise resources from here at the centre to the periphery so that our people can get better healthcare, better roads, better livestock production and better agriculture and water. Today, we have created billionaires in the counties. Let us be very honest. Those who want to become governors better prepare themselves. We want to see the Senate... I was asking Hon. Mbadi and others today. The County Public Accounts and Investment Committee of the Senate, since 2013 has not indicted even one governor! They are always holding meetings here. At least, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Public Investments Committee (PIC) of the National Assembly have indicted public servants in their reports. So, Hon. Moses Kajwang’, Senator for Homabay, unfortunately, does not come from my county. My Senator is doing a better job nationally being the Chair of BBI. Hon. John Mbadi, you better tell your Sen. Moses Kajwang’ that we want to see the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Public Investments Committee (PIC) of the Senate indicting one, two or three people. How can all the 47 governors be good in the face of the audited reports before the Senate? Hon. Speaker, a special occasion demands a special consideration. As Members are aware, there have been issues with respect to the Nairobi County Government, where some of its functions have been taken over by the national Government, in accordance with Article 187 (2) of the Constitution. So, when the County Allocation of Revenue Bill comes to this House, we want those resources ring-fenced and given to either the Committee that will be established or to the national Government."
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