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    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "one that we superintend in our constituencies, and a sizeable amount was also being transferred to our counties. In the last two years, this has changed and that has led to an enhancement of the Road Maintenance Levy Fund that comes to our constituencies, especially the 22 per cent and 10 per cent, to where it is now; which moved from approximately Ksh30 million per constituency to Ksh60 million. It is the feeling of the Committee that we retain that as it is, because the constituencies are a smaller unit of governance and we are able, as Members of Parliament, and especially as KeRRA, to see the roads that are dilapidated and act on them. Our brothers and sisters in the counties have also, within their normal allocation, monies for roads maintenance and, therefore, that status quo for the last two years remains as we pass this Bill. There are just a few things that I want to say and then we give other Members an opportunity. One is that there have been five counties that have never had district headquarters, which we are considering even in this Division of Revenue Bill through conditional grants that they complete their ongoing construction of their headquarters. Hon. Speaker, some are near completion for the last couple of years. Any construction site, whatever percentage, only starts to get utility when citizens are using it. It behoves this House that we consider allocating those resources so that we complete those ongoing headquarters in five constituencies. Our governors are also doing a fantastic job and as fellow leaders, it is important that we support them. We have done that in the past where, in the Supplementary Estimates, we considered the arrears of previous years which had not been remitted. In the same breath, we have noted that the majority of our County Executive Committee Members (CECs) from across the counties spend most of their time following up on money to be disbursed. They move from the Office of the Controller of Budget to the National Treasury. This should not be the business of our CECs. We must devise a formula where the money that the Exchequer gives or receives is allocated to counties without a lot of pushing so that we leave our CECs for Finance to superintend the money within their counties other than wasting time in the Controller of Budget’s office and the National Treasury. Therefore, this Committee noted that anomaly and so, we should streamline and get a formula on how the Exchequer is allocated even within the circumstances of scarcity."
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