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"speaker_name": "Tetu, UDA",
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"content": "Our healthcare workers are on strike. We should quickly release the funds required to meet their demands. It is also sad that our CHPs have two employers. They receive funds from the national Government and the county governments. When you have two employers and there is no synchronisation as to when the salaries should come, you receive a half of the money and wait for the other half to come. How can we ensure that funds for CHPs are allocated at the beginning of the year and paid out at the same time? We urge the National Treasury to ensure that those funds are released on time."
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"content": "Our governors and the county governments cannot escape blame. Despite being proponents and disciples of devolution, they have at times made devolution look like it is a sham or a myth because of some of the things that we keep seeing in our counties. The biggest issues are corruption and wastage or plunder of public resources within our counties. The Senate and the National Assembly should keep looking for additional measures to fight corruption in the counties. We also urge the Auditor-General and the various arms of the government that are concerned with fighting corruption to focus on the counties, which have become the headquarters of corruption. The common joke about devolution in our country is that the only thing that we have successfully done is to devolve corruption. That is a problem we must address."
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"content": "Our county governments also seem to lack the capacity to absorb the funds they receive from the national Government. A recent report shows that many counties have not even absorbed their capital expenditure budgetary allocations, or they have been deviating their capital expenditure allocations to finance recurrent expenditures. The biggest problem that we have in our counties is bloated workforce. Every governor who comes into office adds 200 or 300 new employees. After the expiry of the governor’s five year term, those employees cannot be fired because they are employed on permanent and pensionable terms. A new governor comes into office and adds another 500 new employees. Many counties need a staff audit. Maybe, it is time that staffing matters in the counties are placed under the Public Service Commission (PSC), if they are not already there, so that staff establishments for various service units can be approved by the PSC and their salaries properly determined by the Salaries and Remunerations Commission (SRC)."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Wandeto",
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"content": "The county governments also have many pending bills. Sadly, many of the pending bills are owed to small businesspeople. This is not only a problem of the county governments The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "but it also affects the national Government. It is sad that in this country, the third largest source of revenue after taxation and domestic borrowing is small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) finance. How does small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) finance contribute to the economy of the country? If, as a government entity, you procure goods worth Ksh1 million from a small businessman at the beginning of the year and you do not pay him for a year, two years or three years, is that not forcing him to unlawfully contribute to the country’s kitty? We need to address the issue of pending bills, going forward."
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"content": "Lastly, how can our counties diversify their revenue sources? We created 47 small governments. Some of us who were part of the Constitution-making process had cautioned then – that, we were creating so many small governments. However, we are now long past that stage. We may not be able to revert to the eight county governments that we desired, but how can we ensure that the 47 small governments are somehow self-sustaining? As we devolve more functions over time, and as the country goes through various economic challenges, how can we ensure that the counties raise more revenue? We should come up with mechanisms for the counties to raise revenue. Some mechanisms are already in place but they need to be streamlined to ensure that the counties get funds based on how much revenue they collect. Some governors are doing very little to generate their own revenue. All they do is sit in their headquarters, wait for big cheques from the National Treasury, sit with their colleagues and cronies and figure out how to divide the allocated funds."
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"content": "As I conclude, I would like to point out my own County of Nyeri. I remember going to a meeting about two years ago, just after we were elected to Parliament. Nyeri County was supposed to be one of the first beneficiaries of CAIPS funds. However, looking at the list, Nyeri County has not been allocated any funds. I do not know whether it is because the county got an allocation last year or whether the governor has not contributed his matching counterpart funding, but I would like it to be on record that the County Government of Nyeri has not received any CAIPS money this year. We would like to do many things in our county, whose primary activity is agriculture."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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"content": " Order, Hon. Member. What is your point of order, Hon. Baya?"
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"speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Member who is on the Floor is my friend. He is a good Member of Parliament. I just want to inform him that Nyeri County may not have an allocation because they have not adequately used their previously allocated funds, or there was no counterpart contribution from the county government, or they have not yet found land to put up a CAIPs. Therefore, as a Member of Parliament and a friend of the county governor, he needs to ask the governor what happened. The counties that have been allocated funds have received them on the basis of good progress on their CAIPs. They also have land for construction and the county governments have matched the national Government’s contribution. I know that the good Governor, Dr Kahiga, is your friend. He should help the people of Nyeri to get a CAIP before he departs. It will be part of his legacy. He should not leave the legacy of the “Wamunyoro train” to his people. He needs to leave a proper CAIP."
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"content": " You have made your point. Hon. Gideon Ochanda."
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