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    "id": 1077339,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1077339/?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": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, our constitutional architecture recognises and appreciates that there are regional disparities. It also recognises that revenue raising powers are different amongst the various regions. Be that as it may, where the revenue raising powers are not sufficient, the design compensates that with more transfers to ensure that the resources can be matched with the responsibility to spend in order to provide those services to the people thus satisfying their needs. All that is captured within Article 75 of the Constitution, which basically talks to the issue of matching funds to functions. It requires the county governments to have reliable sources of revenue to enable them govern and deliver services effectively. It is in this spirit that we are seized with this agenda to approve the dispatch and distribution of funds commensurate with the needs and predicaments of each county as per the allocation formula. I will just quote some two examples because Hon. Sankok did mention the issues of development. When I compare an emerging county like Nyandarua, a county that was created at Independence from the white highlands, it does not have the same endowments in terms of perennial crops like Nyeri and Kiambu, which have coffee and tea. It does not have the endowment that the county of Narok has in terms of wildlife and huge wheat fields, but it has a higher population. Looking at the distribution, the county of Narok has Kshs8.8 billion and the county of Nyandarua has Kshs5.7 billion. So, if you look at the two which are within the same ecological zone, then you can see that on a per capita basis, the resident of Nyandarua County is marginalised through the allocation of resources! They will not get adequate healthcare, water and agricultural improvement, especially when you remove some of the money and give it to the county assembly and the Executive to spend. One can give many similar examples. You can look at the County of Kiambu with 2.4 million people and compare it with a county that has a lesser population. So, this is part of the thing the BBI hoped and is still hoping to resolve, so that Hon. Sankok can rightfully argue, from a certain point, that development will attract people. I ask a question: Over the last eight years or so, if you look at the total amount of money that has gone to Turkana County, and we are talking of over Kshs100 billion, plus the national expenditure on roads, is the average Turkana person better off now than they were eight years ago? If you visit that county, you will still see what you used to see 10 years ago. So, we need to start thinking and challenging county governments that we are providing these resources so that the lives of the people can be made better. In Nyandarua County, I know we have challenges even in our healthcare system. I can give an example of the entire Kipipiri Sub-County where there is no single hospital."
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