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    "id": 1165976,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1165976/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "When it comes to sharing, there was the National Resource Revenue Sharing Bill here in this House by Sen. (Dr.) Zani. I do not know how far it has gone in the National Assembly. It provided clearly how to share these resources among the national Government and the county government, or if it is a shared resource across one or two counties. If that is approved, then we can easily develop these resources and generate our own revenue. The commonly known livestock sector has not been developed at all. The counties considered that as a resource, not only in terms of going to the market and collecting sales from the livestock traders, but improve production, provide market in terms of having disease free zones, holding grounds, so that the livestock keepers or the pastoralist can sell to an organized county entity. This will improve the quality through feedlots and vaccination then either sell the livestock as live animals, export them out or have abattoirs and sell meat. That way, along the process they will generate revenue from the livestock farmers and also from whatever products they will be selling. There is need to get counties to focus on development of their resources through this kind of a legislation. The other thing is about the regional economic blocks. Currently, I checked we have six regional economic blocks in this country. I did not find any concrete legislation other than policies through the Ministry of Devolution and ASAL to assist them in coming up with these regional blocks. Forty-six counties excluding Nairobi City County are all part of one of these six regional blocks. They are supposed to assist them to spur economic growth within the respective region through policy harmonization and resource mobilization. Like in Northern Kenya, we have Frontier Counties Development Council (FCDC), which could easily look at what they can do best, either through grants from the national Government or development partners can have that particular sector enhanced and improved. For example, if transport has been a problem, through that engagement the FCDC, the road from Isiolo, Modogashe, all the way to Wajir and Mandera being tarmacked. This is because it is part of the enablers in that region and it affects several counties all of which are within the same block. They can negotiate and lobby together. That way, that kind of a road can be done and it is about to be done. However, if it was for each county to look for its own resources, it would not have been easy. Now that they are doing it as a bloc, they can easily approach international financiers to get grants or even loans through the national Government. They can also implore the national Government by lobbying as a bloc, to do infrastructure development arguing that with good infrastructure in place, counties can improve and develop other resources."
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