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    "id": 1054706,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1054706/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "County Allocation of Revenue Bill, which is what my predecessor was talking about in terms of apportioning how much goes to recurrent and how much goes to expenditure. In the Division of Revenue Bill, we are just doing the vertical division between how much remains in the national Government and how much goes to county governments. Hon. Speaker, it is not true to say that the amount indicated here has not increased over the last year. Last year, we appropriated about Kshs370 billion including the conditional grants. This year, it is clearly put in the Schedule, for those who have cared to read, that we are appropriating Kshs409 billion. This is Kshs30 billion over and above what they received last year. So, it did not make sense to have money for recurrent expenditure for roads being given as conditional grants, yet roads are devolved. So, you are giving some money as part of sharable revenue and on top of that, you are giving others as conditional grants through the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), yet it is the same money to be used across the same roads. It is important to get counties to budget in totality for their money except programmes that are funded separately through development grants and anything else that the national Government will do, which is not of recurrent nature. Roads will forever be maintained by counties. It is something that was foreseen and was included in the Schedule among the 14 that were devolved, which is very different from the medical equipment scheme which was a temporary measure."
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