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    "id": 1158963,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this amended version of the County Governments Grants Bill. I would like to join my colleagues in congratulating the Senator for Kirinyaga for doing a splendid job by ensuring the role of the Senate when it comes to the issue of division of revenue and making sure that our counties get money, is respected. As a Senator, I am proud that Narok County will get an additional amount of Kshs645 million which will go towards helping Level 2 and 3 hospitals. About Kshs150 million will also go to the informal sector. There will also be money to pay for the Managed Equipment Services (MES). That is money that the Senate has the mandate to oversight. The biggest challenge we had with the title “conditional and unconditional grants” will be a thing of the past. I remember when Sen. Wamatangi summoned governors to come and explain how they spent the money on the road sector, they went to court and said the Senate did not have a mandate to ask them how they spend conditional grants that were given to them for the roads. Having now changed the title to additional grants, it will help the Senate to continue to oversight every resource send to the county governments. This is our opportunity and we must remain firm and prove to the country that when we are here as Senators, our job is to send money to the counties. I join my colleagues in saying that it is imperative that the National Assembly also passes the mediated version, so that we can have the money send to the counties. It will be sad if the money given to us as grants is sent back to the donors. We know that the amount of money that the national Government is sending as additional grants is about Kshs9 billion and Kshs30 billion is from loans and grants from donor agencies. That money can help a little child in Mandera County. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, in most counties, especially in the northern part of Kenya, they rely on grants to do developments. Most of the sharable revenue goes to some questionable contracts. That is the case in all the 47 counties. For conditional grants, there are conditions and a requirement that they must submit quarterly reports. I thank you."
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