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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "This is important to us in Tana River County. If you look into the Report, you will see that four counties are going to benefit from this allocation. One of them was Tana River. Others were Lamu, Isiolo, and Nyandarua. This Kshs.163 million will come and help Tana River County finish the construction of the County Headquarters. I feel very embarrassed many times when I visit other county headquarters and see they have beautiful buildings which are housing the head of the county government. In the last dispensation, the county government of Machakos had beautiful buildings and works that was going on in. Kitui which is our neighbor in Tana River and Kilifi County have finalized the construction of the county headquarters. In Tana River County, we have not finalized this. I hope that we shall benefit as it is intended. We hope that with this batch then, we shall get out of being left behind as it were. This is because it seems that it is only four counties that had not finished the construction of their county headquarters, Tana River being one. Therefore, the message we are sending to the governor and county government is that we are passing this money and we want to see results on the ground. We want to see proper building, relocation of staff to the correct place so that the working environment can be good for our counties. I support this Bill so that this money is made available as soon as possible by the schedule that has been proposed here on the 15th of March and on the 15th of April in those two batches that the Chairperson of this Committee on Budget and Finance has proposed. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also noted that the second bit of the allocation is Kshs.17.15 billion which is conditional allocations financed from proceeds of loans and grants from development partners. From this Report, you will note, there are: - a) The allocation from World Bank Credit for the National Agricultural and Rural Inclusive Growth (NARGIP) Project. b) World Bank Credit for National Agricultural Value Chain Development Project. c) World Bank Credit for Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project; d) World Bank Project for Water and Sanitation. e) World Bank Credit facility for locally-led climate action and so on and so forth. I wanted to bring to the attention of this House what our President has been championing. I speak as the Head of the Delegation of Pan African Parliament. I wanted us to look at what is happening when we access this credit. The Chairperson of Budget and Finance has not told us what is happening. The global north in the world generally has been very unfair to us who are in the global south. The World Bank being one of the Bretton Woods organs, believe it or not, they have been giving credit to the Global North at about 0.01 per cent, allowing them access to big facilities for development in their countries. When the Global South such as Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia want to access the same facility, they will go to the same Bretton Woods Institution and will be given the same facility but at the rate of 10 per cent interest."
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