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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I will only handle two issues because of the time limit of five minutes, otherwise I would have spoken for much longer. I will tackle two issues; one is the conditional grants that have now been lumped together under the sharable revenue. Initially, it was easier to oversight particular allocations when you say this allocation if for village polytechnics, the other one is for Level Five hospitals. As overseers both at the county and the national level, which is the Senate, it was made easier. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know they have quoted the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) as having advised that since functions are being followed by funds or funds are following functions at the county level, it was necessary these conditions be lumped together. However, I am happy that the Committee has made this amendment and we shall be supporting it. Secondly, I would like to talk about the accountability at the county level. Now that we have given them this money, we would like that they spend it wisely, reduce cases of pilferage as much as we have been told time in memorial that 30 per cent of our budget always go to pilferage or corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, this has happened even before devolution came. I want to encourage our leadership at the county level, the governors to help us reduce this percentage that goes to corruption so that we are not told that we devolved corruption as well. I support."
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