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    "id": 1027140,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Langat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13189,
        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
        "slug": "christopher-andrew-langat"
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    "content": "I support these particular amendments, first, because of time. Time is a healer of all maladies in life. The two years that have been proposed, I want to add and tell Sen. Kang’ata to also pressurize the National Treasury to make sure that we are given more funds, so that we get enough to share instead of engaging ourselves in scrambling for Kshs316.5 billion. By the time these two years elapse, that particular opportunity will have been engaged to make sure that we push the National Treasury to give us more money. I want to notify this particular House that the budget of the national Government has been growing right form 2013, at a point of Kshs1.7 trillion, to the current Kshs3 trillion. The stagnation at the county level to the point that we are scrambling for only Kshs316.5 billion should not be something to be heard of in this country. We have a perception of losers and gainers because we are scrambling over very little funds. I support that we make a decision today because Kenyans look forward to us as a decision making institution. I support this particular amendment. The greatest challenge that I want to add on top of this is not how much money we are getting in our counties; the greatest challenge goes to the issue of oversight. If only this particular House could be given oversight funds, so that we monitor whatever money gets into the counties. I remember at one time when Sen. Wetangula said that the money that gets into our counties is developing individuals faster than our counties. If only this particular House is empowered to get proper funding, so that we get specialists and people who can assist us in effective oversight, the problem that is there in the counties would not be there right now. In as much as we are fighting for more funding to go to our counties, we should also remember that this is a House with little capacity to oversight counties. We are using our own resources to oversight. Some of our counties are vast with very bad road networks. So, it is not easy to access some parts of our counties. This has posed challenges to oversight activities. Therefore, this House must unite and get money for the oversight role. I support the Motion with amendments and request my colleagues to support it so that it succeeds today."
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