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    "id": 1054703,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. These pending bills affect our economy. There is high corruption. Governors are asking for close to 20 per cent to be paid in advance for them to pay pending bills particularly pending bills from their predecessors. As I support this Bill, I have the following submissions to make, that to achieve even the BBI proposal of at least 35 per cent nationally and raising the amount going to counties, functions must be domiciled. Agriculture and health are functions that ought to be with them yet they are still with the national Government. We are not saying which functions are going to follow as we give them 35 per cent. We must first discuss the functions, then go to the increment in allocation. The national Government should also guarantee counties that have utilised the medical equipment facilities for the project duration of seven years. These contracts must be relookedt. The Government must address the ballooning wage bill at the counties. The pending bills at the counties have led to deterioration of financial positions in our businesses and that must be relooked. Finally, the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the National Treasury and Planning should bring into this House a policy framework to guide conditional allocation. I am sitting next to the former and the current Chairs of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We said it in subsequent years that the Cabinet Secretary must bring a policy to guide conditional allocations and conditional grants to counties. Money is being given to counties with no criteria and policy. Donors funded some of them, yet he has no powers to do that. If he does this, it will reduce the use of conditional allocation, and this will marginalise certain parts of this country. I support."
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