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    "id": 1063346,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Division of Revenue Bill. In the interest of time, I am will keep it to two issues. First, I would like to congratulate the Committee. They have done a great job in a very short period of time. I would also like to congratulate this Senate for executing their mandate wonderfully. This particular Division of Revenue Bill is the first one that is really facing devolution, meaning that we have gone beyond the minimum to provide more revenue to the counties from the sharable revenue. It is Kshs370 billion, and collectively with the conditional grants, Kshs409.88 billion. It is a very big win for devolution, and I hope that this money will be used properly by our counties. In terms of the fight that went into making sure that devolution gains and it is resourced, I would like to congratulate this House for standing steady. Counties like Isiolo, which was losing Kshs869 million, did not lose that amount of money. That would have meant shutting down most of the services in the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is, however, something very peculiar that I have noticed, as I was reading this Report. While the conditional grants from loans and development partners support social sectors like the healthcare system, universal services, education, and drought resilience programmes in northern Kenya, our own resources from the national Government are not really facing these sectors. I wonder why we use donor money for social sectors, but use our own funds for other things."
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