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    "id": 1126936,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also add my voice into this very important Bill and Report. The conditional allocation grant, which is more than Ksh7 billion per county is not chicken change. It is money that should be accompanied with a lot of conditions set by the national Government lest we continue having what we are seeing in county governments where 80 per cent of all the money they collect and receive from the national Government goes to payment of salaries and what we call recurrent budget. Sometimes the money goes to public participation, recurrent budgets in terms of office operations like having sodas and tea, and local and international travel. That is why we are not seeing value for our money. As Hon. (Prof.) Oundo has said, things on the ground are different from the allocations to county governments. I have read from the Bill that there will be public participation after approval. Talk of priorities upside down or downside up, whichever way you would like to put it. That is what they are doing. We need to be very careful lest we do public participation in vain just to satisfy the requirement of our Constitution. If you have already approved, what is the essence of public participation? Supposing the public does not need it? Supposing the public gives very good suggestions on what is supposed to be done but it is already approved? Again, from that Bill, it is supposed to be annually. That means county governments will be at the mercy of the national Government. The national Government may decide that this year they will thoroughly use their muscle of numbers in the National Assembly or in the Senate so that the Bill is not passed. So, they will not receive the grants. We also want to check on the issue of equal distribution of the conditional grants. That is so that, as other Hon. Members have said, we do not have distribution in terms of political patronage. What I have in mind is a Governor who has completed two terms and has the intention of contesting in a single constituency within his county. Naturally, he or she may be biased towards taking a lot of development to woo voters in the constituency he is intending to contest in. So, we really need to be very careful about that."
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