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    "id": 1085544,
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    "speaker_name": "Samburu North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alois Lentoimaga",
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "I urge Members to pass the Regulations because we have stayed for almost 13 years without the release of the funds. Even the little that was released was not utilised fully. In Samburu North, eight projects have stalled out of the 352 that were initiated. Eight are from Samburu North and it is because of non-utilisation of the Fund. These Regulations will unlock the unutilised funds and put a new working implementation framework for the funds to be utilised. Initially, the previous policy had put utilisation from top to bottom. Disbursement and projects were done from the top to the bottom and not bottom-up. Why was it so? It is because it was the Principal Secretaries who were in charge of the board and so they selected the projects. I remember the money we were to use last time, the PSs used to come to the county headquarters and would sit with us to select the projects in only one day. The result of coming in choppers was that they used over Kshs400 million for just two days. Even though we are not very happy about the bureaucracy in the selection of the committees, at least, it is something better than what we had before. That is why the governors went to court. Now that the Regulations bring all the stakeholders on board, and because of the timelines - we have only nine years remaining - we better accept this and wait until we get another Chairman’s Bill in the Senate. It has hit a snag because of the Senators. We better use this one in the interim because it will unlock Kshs1.2 billion that is meant for the stalled projects and Kshs698 billion for the other projects. We are not complaining about the other 20 counties, but we are saying that the money was meant for a purpose. It was not meant for people because they could be poor. If people lack services in Nairobi, it is not because they are marginalised but, rather, it is because of leadership in the county. It can be magnanimous enough to ensure that everybody gets development in the county."
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