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    "id": 1085474,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard ole Kenta",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": " I would like to advise my colleague. I believe the Constitution set out 14 counties. The additional counties, I would say, are unconstitutional. They are not provided in the Constitution. The addition was actually meant to frustrate the benefits that the 14 counties were supposed to get. There is also the issue of stalled projects. Some of the reasons for stalling of projects are intentional. For example, in my constituency there were projects which were to be carried out, including construction of bridges, but they stalled. Contractors are not doing their work. There is something that is happening that is not satisfactory. Treasury has been unfair to these marginalised counties. If Treasury itself is the one that is supposed to identify projects and allocate money and there is no will to do so, then the regulations that seek to form committees at the constituency level are of great use. But with less than nine years to go and considering the worrying status of this country’s economy, even if you say you are going to carry out some of these projects and you do not have the necessary financial might to do, you will just be playing academic games which will never materialise to anything. So, I support the Committee. The most important thing is enforcement. In fact, we have called some of these Cabinet Secretaries to our Committee to ask them the level of implementation. The argument is ‘money The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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