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    "id": 1232751,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "Cheptumo William Kipkiror",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we move forward, as we restructure our loans and continue to improve our economy, these figures should move from Kshs385 billion to maybe Kshs450 billion and so on, as proposed by the CRA. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support the figure of Kshs385 billion because of our economic situation as a country. However, there is a need to pursue a further increment even as we advance as a country. How do we enable county governments to enhance their own revenue? You are aware that we have economic blocs in our counties, for instance, in Central Kenya, Rift Valley, Nyanza and Coast. In my view, the intention of these county economic blocs was to strengthen and create opportunities and jobs for our people and enhance business in the neighbouring counties. This will enhance the counties revenue collection in their respective areas. As a House, we need to see how best we can strengthen these economic blocs. Is it grounded in law? If not, we need to do so. On the issue of disbursement of money, it is one thing to allocate Kshs385 billion to the counties and to disburse it. As a House, we need to put in place rules, regulations and legislations that will make it automatic that once you allocate money to the counties, it is disbursed. This is because the challenge that we have is that we allocate the money and then counties wait for the collections of the resources. I also believe that even after receiving the resources, there is no willingness by the national Government to quickly avail funds to the counties. So, it is an area which we need to also look into so that we have a clear mandatory position of remittance of the allocations to the counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I heard my colleague, Sen. Maanzo, say that when we do"
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