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    "id": 1106594,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Looking at withdrawal and utilization of the funds, this is supposed to be done by the Senate- “The Fund shall be utilized as conditional grants to the affected counties in accordance with the Division of Revenue Act and County Allocation of Revenue Act for the respective financial years. All withdrawals from the Fund shall be deposited into the respective spending counties accounts.” This is a contradiction. I am 100 per cent sure, the way Members of the National Assembly work, it seems all their NG–CDF staff will be the ones who will bulldoze this thing through because they are the majority in the committee. We will end up again with people fighting all over. Nothing will come out of the county because the county government and the Members of the National Assembly will fight over this, and the CECM is not going to recommend anything to come to the Board for money to be released. Why did we waste all this time? We have already wasted more than 10 years of the 20 years when this money was supposed to be allocated and given to the marginalized areas. Not only have the counties concerned been increased, which I have no problem with, but we are going to delay because this thing might lead to court actions and problems in the long run. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I hope the committee will look into these issues, but the way things are now, we might not be able to do much. I urge the Committee to look into this issue. If need arises, they should look and see where they can change, even if the National Assembly because of their own interests, do not care what happens to this money. I beg to support."
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