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    "id": 984377,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. I would like to support this Bill with amendments made by the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget and because of reasons which have already been elucidated by my colleagues. So, I will not repeat them. Also, I take into account the information given by Sen. Orengo on the status of Nairobi Metropolitan Service (NMS). It is not a function of the national Government so there will be no need to transfer the money back to the national Government. Last year, we passed the equitable share after a lot of struggle. I would like to report that by now, most of the monies have been channeled to pay debts and to the issue of COVID-19. So, development has not been achieved at the county level because of this kind of unnecessary supplementary. So, we also need to look at what is going on in the counties. We do not have a say on how conditional grants are to be shared. When they go to county governments, county assemblies pass them the same way. So, there is no clear framework to oversight these funds. The Road Maintenance Levy Fund, for example, is to be shared equally among constituencies. However, when it goes to the county, the governor has a say on where it goes. We need to check on Kenya Roads Board (KRB) because they are the ones who oversight that money. Do they give them instructions that at that level, the money should be shared equally among the constituencies so that roads are maintained everywhere? On the issue of some of the conditional grants, for example, Drought Resilience Programme (DRP) in Northern Kenya, there is a lot of bureaucracy between the national Treasury the Auditor-General. Up to now, my county has not utilized what they have been given. The other day the Auditor-General signed for it to be utilized, but it was the end of the financial year. So, we need to have mechanisms of checking this money. Is it assisting our people, is it misappropriated along the way or it is returned because it is not utilized and the infrastructure is not there? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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