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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tobiko",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope that also means an extension of my time. I was saying that this Bill is important in that it seeks to address crucial and pertinent issues affecting our counties. Even as we emphasize regulating and giving a legal framework to conditional grants and additional resources to the counties, we must insist that counties prudently use and account for every revenue allocated to them. Counties have found a way of accounting for resources received from the national Government from the sharable revenue. However, there is a loophole when it comes to own source revenues. That is money that people do not benefit from and yet it comes from their pockets. This House must come up with a mechanism on how to regulate such monies and have the counties account for them. We should also encourage counties to generate their own resources and ensure there are proper systems for accountability. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I support this Bill, we should go beyond this and come up with a framework of monitoring how the Equalization Fund is expended in counties. The Ali Roba Committee should also come up with some formal system of monitoring how counties account revenue generated in their counties. I thank you."
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