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    "id": 1015287,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1015287/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, if you move to the next parameter that is agriculture, which has been allocated 10 per cent, what was proposed is to use rural households. So, you get a county; remove what is considered as urban centers in those counties, remove the population in those areas, remain with what is considered as rural population, take the total sum of all the other 47 counties, put the figure for that particular county, call it Narok, over the total and apply the amount that has been allocated for agriculture. The next question that we would be engaged in is, and that is why I am very angry with the Senate because they have not provided me any opportunity to ask, is whether fishing has been considered as agriculture in this formula. I have no opportunity to do that. I am now not able to represent my people of Suba South effectively because there is limited time to look at the details of how they came up with the rural population. That, I find very unfair from the Senate. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the other issue is urbanization, which has been given five per cent. Again, you use the urban population; the opposite of the rural population. On roads, what was it that was considered? I know many people are thinking that the formula used the road network. It is far from it. If you use road network, Nakuru would take very high amounts out of that because it happens to be the county in this country that has the longest road network. So, what the CRA considered, which we should have been discussing, is what they call road deficit. Anyone who lives more than two kilometers away from a motorable road was considered road deficit. And that percentage gave Mandera Ksh1.3 billion and was giving Nairobi County Ksh5 million. These are the things that we should have been discussing and this is what the Senate should have been discussing. 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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