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    "id": 1127061,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. You are a true heroine. You are particularly considerate of the fact that we have come to participate in these late-night sessions. I support this Bill from the Senate. I think they are doing the right thing. It amazes me that we are very good at looking over our shoulders at others and judging them as being less accountable or less transparent than we are in this House. When we talk about oversight, we should think about how this function has slipped through our hands. That is why today we have an accumulating debt which should be entirely within our control. We have more human resource here than the counties have but oversight is still a challenge. Devolution is barely 10 years old. This is the time we should give them every support they need. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, these grants save the counties from seeking to tax people more. It is a good thing that grants are going to the counties. It is going to take a while for all the systems in the counties to fall into place. We can, however, demonstrate our commitment in that regard if the National Assembly had a zero-tolerance to corruption and wastage policy. We speak a lot about it. We use a lot of English but we do not seem to get it fixed. It is going to take time. The amount of money that goes to the counties in total is about Kshs370 billion, which is about 10 per cent of the National Budget. We worry about losses that occur with regard to 10 per cent of the National Budget but we do not seem to worry about the losses that occur with regard to the 90 per cent. We have had the Kenya Medical Supply Authority (KEMSA) scandal and everything just seems to slip through our fingers. We will use the loot for campaigns and we run the nation that way. 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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