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    "id": 1134109,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "That growth is not a figure from the Senate, but from the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning. Based on that figure, the Committee recommends to this House that the allocation of revenue for the financial year that is now rolling out must move from Kshs370 billion to Kshs495 billion. That reflects the growth that the Treasury itself has told us. We should probably be asking for more, but we are only holding them to account on what they have brought to the Senate and my Chairman has said it clearly. Our interest is to ensure that devolution works and that resources follow functions. The functions that are already with the county governments must be adequately resourced. Mr. Speaker, Sir, equally important in our recommendation is the continuing holding on of resources for devolved functions. Huge sums of money are still held at the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation for functions that have been devolved. Agricultural fertilizer subsidies are now dead because the money that would enable the counties do the subsidies is held at the headquarters. We only need to inquire as the Senate which functions did we devolve according to the Constitution and the law to the counties? Which Ministries are, therefore, obligated under the Constitution to be responsible for policy formulation and not implementation of programmes and projects that are devolved? You will find that the Ministries of Health, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation and that of Water and Sanitation would be receiving most minimal budget allocations yet they get the lion’s share."
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