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    "id": 1207651,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to second. The County Governments Additional Allocations (No. 2) Bill (Senate Bill No.4 of 2022) is quite critical for our counties. Many counties across the nation are waiting for funds, especially those that relate to donor funding and counterpart funding from the Government of Kenya. As I indicated yesterday, about Ksh5 billion is from the Government of Kenya and close to Ksh17 billion comes from our development partners who fund critical programmes in the water and health sectors. Let me also take this opportunity to tell our governors – both those serving their second terms and those serving their first terms – that, in the past, we have seen a lot of wastage even with donor funds coming in to alleviate problems in healthcare and water. We are asking all our governors to ensure that these funds, which amount to almost Ksh23 billion, do not go to waste. I have seen a number of new governors doing a lot of good work, especially in rationalizing staff levels in their counties to make sure that their wage bills come down so that more funds being allocated to them by the national Government can go towards development expenditure. I especially note the new Governor of Kisii County, who is a former Member of Parliament. It speaks well of Members who have served in this House who move on to become governors. Since they have been appropriating money to the counties, they know the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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