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    "id": 1077397,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1077397/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati",
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "The Senate has also brought all these issues together to be addressed. Migori County will get Kshs8 billion from the Kshs6 billion it had received in the last financial year. That is a lot of money. I throw a challenge to my governor that he has to develop places he has never developed. Some of us come from counties that are extremely cosmopolitan. Migori is one such county right from Rongo, Isebania, Sirare border to Mara and Tarime. That is my county. We want to see governors as they leave office leave legacies of equitable development. Moving forward, that should happen with NG-CDF. It brought the Equalisation Fund. The Equalisation Fund was established to help where the NG-CDF did not reach. We now have funds that go to counties. How then can this House or the Senate come up with another mechanism that can provide conditional grants or non-conditional funds to support other areas that have not gotten this kind of development? So, I throw this challenge to governors to ensure they pay their staff. We even have MCAs who are crying. For the last four or five months, Hon. MCAs have not received salaries. County Executive Committee Members (CECMs) have not received salaries. Contractors have not received their money. We must develop mechanisms that ensure prudent disbursement of this money so that development can be felt in every corner of this country. I support this Bill."
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