{"id":1231409,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1231409/?format=json","text_counter":263,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cheruiyot","speaker_title":"The Senate Majority Leader","speaker":{"id":13165,"legal_name":"Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot","slug":"aaron-cheruiyot"},"content":"I made a proposal to our colleagues in the Committee on Finance and Budget though I no longer sit there. We must push the National Treasury. We had begun this conversation in the years that I sat there as a Member, to create a Devolution Fund, by either raising revenue in the present financial year. That would be difficult given the present financial situation."}