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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "The reason we are proposing this amendment is because of a, b, c or d that holds to for the people that I represent in this House and therefore, I support that particular amendment. For that reason, I urge colleague Senators who are in the House to read the contents of this Bill. This is perhaps one of the most important Businesses that the Senate gets to transact each and every financial year. It is important that we place some history how we ended up with this Bill. Previously, we used to carry conditional and unconditional grants as part of the annual Division of Revenue Act (DORA) and County Allocations Revenue Act (CARA) Bill. However, there have been litigations in court of people not agreeing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the history of Conditional and Unconditional Grants begun around 2015 when it was realised that about five counties had absolutely nowhere they could call a county headquarter. Part of them are still beneficiaries in this Bill today. The decision was then made at our Committee then to give them an unconditional grant for them to build their county headquarters. I know of Nyandarua County where Sen. Methu comes from, Tharaka Nithi County and I cannot remember which other one, over the years, those counties have been getting resources over and above what we share and distribute outside of the revenue formula. Unfortunately, over the subsequent years, the so-called National Treasury mandarins, the “deep states” and the “systems” found a way of securing projects and other “sweeteners” to certain well-connected counties, passing it before both Houses of Parliament and passing for it as either Conditional or Unconditional Grants. You would find that a particular project was started yet when you take a keen look at it, you could note that on most occasions, it was the same counties that were always benefiting from the conditional and unconditional grants. What was more worrying was that there was no proposed formula for distribution of these projects. It rested upon the feelings of the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of the National Treasury. Therefore, people started being concerned and said they needed to find a mechanism upon which conditional and unconditional grants would be sent out to all the 47 county governments. After lengthy drawn court battles, this decision was arrived at. This is the first Bill that we are considering under additional allocations to our County Governments over and above that which we distributed. There is good justification. There are unique circumstances that end up giving us donor funded projects. For instance, today, I know Mr. Bill Gates was meeting the Council of Governors (CoGs). Based on whatever grants or gifting that Mr. Gates may want to give to certain county governments, if some of those are by way of loans that are being advanced to counties, if say they are meeting the donor community, then there is"
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