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    "id": 1056549,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1056549/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1955,
        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Another thing I would recommend is, if I had my way, we would freeze all new development projects for a year so as to manage our deficit. That is important. My last point will be on county government allocation. When you look at the policy paper there is what we call vertical division, where the county and the national Government have been given money. The allocation for equitable share is Kshs 370 billion, out of that, there is a small component of road levy which has been put there. I am sure my chairman did mention this. The road levy is actually managed through a standalone Act of Parliament. As we move forward to discuss the Division of Revenue, this is a point that we will be raising and see how we can accommodate it. There is a bit of an illegality when you take road levy fund and put it as part of the equitable share. This we can take up at the next level. The last point is the issue of parastatals. If we want to move as a country and go to the right direction, we must structure the parastatals. We must do away with parastatals which are relying on the Exchequer. Forget about them, dissolve them and only retain those that are giving us returns as a country. We want to see a parastatal giving cheques to the National Treasury the way Central Bank of Kenya or Kenya Pipeline does. So let us do away with those that are not giving returns and forget about any other which is just drawing resources from the Exchequer. There is no need of investing in a place where…"
}