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    "id": 1244938,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1244938/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the matter raised by Sen. Methu is not true. Sen. Sifuna is right. If you look at the Public Finance Management (County Governments) Regulations of 2015, specifically Regulation 25(1)(f), you will see that whatever county assemblies get is supposed to be based on the equitable share of a county. The Regulations that we passed currently puts it at 7 per cent of a county’s equitable share, or twice the personnel emoluments, whichever is greater. So, it is not farfetched for Sen. Sifuna to say that the money we send to counties, the more money is available to county assemblies and not necessarily for salaries. It could be for operations or to facilitate public participation and public outreach and to enable them to carry out their oversight and representation mandate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wanted to remind Sen. Sifuna of this because we discussed it in the morning. He does not have to apologize to Sen. Methu for making an impression that if we would have voted for Kshs407 billion, then county assemblies would have been given more access to money to carry out operations. I know the matter before us is about salaries, payments and benefits, but county assemblies would have gotten more money if the Senate gave more money to the counties."
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