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    "id": 1063254,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1063254/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Let me also weigh in on the Division of Revenue Bill of 2021/2022. One of the striking features on this Bill is the fact that the conditional grants that had been taken by the National Treasury and given to road maintenance levy, the agricultural sector, and the Level 5 hospitals have now been transferred as conditional grants to be substantive budgets for the county governments. That is why you see some of these figures going up. I would have anticipated that there would be a straightforward increase on the shareable revenue from the national Government. However, what they have done is juggle around with the figures and, therefore, take some of the functions that hitherto have been under the conditional grants to be part of the shareable revenue. In effect, it should have been the case because we know that functions follow resources, and that has been our position in the past. Therefore, any shareable revenue must be able to be accountable on the basis of Schedule Four of the Constitution, which has already allocated functions of the county governments that must be carried out safely and timely. My biggest worry is that the ballooning debt burden for this country is skimming away any amount that may be available as sharable revenue"
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