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    "id": 1012549,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1012549/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
        "slug": "samson-ndindi-nyoro"
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker for the chance to contribute. I rise to oppose. Even after incorporating the Kshs56 billion, which is not available and referencing on how we have been giving money to our counties, I do not think we are observing equity and equality in so far as disbursing money to our counties is concerned. Therefore, I believe the whole process is fraud. Hon. Speaker, if you do not mind, can I relax my mask. If you look at the per capita allocation of the money we give to our counties per person, per region and at both horizontal and vertical equity, we are leaving a lot to be desired. I come from a county that is densely populated. The way we have been disbursing money to our counties is not correct and right. It does not exhibit equity in our country, if we are to divide even after incorporating the Kshs56 billion. If we are to divide the money we apportion per county, every Kenyan is supposed to receive Kshs7,800 per annum per capita. But there are a lot of disparities that cannot be justified by anything including the expansiveness of land or even poverty index. Murang’a County’s per capita even after incorporating the Kshs56 billion is around a partly Kshs6,700. Compare the same with a county like Tana River which is receiving around Kshs20,000. I do not think that is the route that we should take as a country. If you are to look at the population of Kiambu County and compare it with Turkana County, Kiambu County’s is like three times that of Turkana County. I do not think there is any justification that Turkana County should receive more money than Kiambu County which has a population more than thrice. But there are some issues beyond which I would like to highlight even as we talk about counties and disbursing money to them. I have talked about vertical equity. When you come to horizontal counties that are homogenous for example, Murang’a and Nyeri, why do we have disparities within these two counties? Also putting Kiambu in the same category, Kiambu County has a per capita allocation of below Kshs4,000. You compare the same to a county like Nyeri which is approaching Kshs8,000. These are people who live around the same conditions, their parameters are the same and they are homogenous. The new formula that came from the Senate, I believe is the one we are debating here today, even if we cannot alter, I do not think it represents the Kenya we want to build as we go on especially in terms of devolution. But there are some issues, if you look at our counties, and what is more visible is conditional grants. If you go to my county or any other area, we are having money coming from the World Bank, and even from KeRRA. This is the only money we can see on the ground and I think we need to enhance this. I think the counties are also borrowing from the financial imprudence at the national Government. This country is borrowing more than Kshs2 billion every day. Therefore, we need to streamline everything money in this country and we cannot purport to say it is urgent. When we want to do wrong in this country, we invoke urgency. Therefore, I oppose until it is one man, one vote, one shilling."
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