County taxpayers funded projects across Counties have been emblazoned with portraits of Governors and MCAs as if they were funded by philanthropic funds thus massaging their political egos
County taxpayers funded projects across Counties have been emblazoned with portraits of Governors and MCAs as if they were funded by philanthropic funds thus massaging their political egos and perpetuating self aggrandizement courtesy of taxpayers contrary to article 75(1) of the Constitution of Kenya
The matter was filed in the Senate on 17th July 2024
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I appeared before the committee of Devotion on the matter. There was no objection to the subject matter and it’s on going in the Senate
The Counties were in spree of spending billions of public money in outsourcing legal services and yet they established County Attorneys who are legally mandated to represent Counties in legal matters. As per the Controller of budget report of 2024 over 56 billions were pending bills for legal services in Counties. The petition will protect Public funds from misuse and be directed to the intended purpose. Furthermore the Counties will have to utilise Counties Attorneys who have a budget for that course instead of outsourcing legal services and paying these legal entities billions of money which
The nominations of nominated MCAs has been always done in a skewed and obscure manner where a hundreds of nominated MCAs are nominated by the political parties shareholders. They nominated them and swap them in several Counties Assemblies. These Nominated MCAs have no idea of the challenges and needs of the residents in those Counties, making the representation to be quality less. The petition was meant to cure that problem in making sure that all nominated MCAs come from their respective Counties they are nominated into for will a direct connection with the people and their
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