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    "id": 1245424,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "The Committee informs us that they have taken serious concern the approach of the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) on the allocation for public participation component under the operations and maintenance expenditure. It does not fully take into account the unique needs of each county. Several counties have requested for an increase in allocation due to the cost associated with the vastness of the various counties. It is fairly straightforward to us, while we may want to distribute resources equally amongst us. Many of us that come from the Western side of the country, our counties are densely populated but do not have the geographical expanse. If you would carry out a public participation in my county, you would not use the same amount of resources like what it would take to do the same in Turkana, Garissa and Kitui, which we visited three years ago. I did not know how expansive Kitui County was until we did Senate Mashinani . It was the first time that we got to travel around. There were days that we would leave at 6.00 a.m. for Committee engagement because we were supposed to make to the meeting at 10.00 a.m. We would drive for three hours across the same county. I do not know how it will be like in Turkana County when we visit for Senate Mashinani later on this year. This is because it is three times the size of Kitui County. Basically, the Committee is making an observation in the agreement with CRA. We shall continue to have this conversation because this is the work and the reason for this House. We exist as a Senate to look into the uniqueness of each of our devolved units and try to carry them on board as we make decisions. The Committee has told us that counties continue to incur high costs associated with the provision of legal services such as litigation. Thereby further straining the resources available for development. Sen. Ali Roba, you will realize that human behaviour is not static. It changes with time. You know the kind of work that we do as Senators is like a policing exercise. The kind of audit queries that we used to deal with here from 2013 to 2017 are not the same as the ones that we see nowadays. I say this as someone who has been in this House for a while. It reminds me of what Chinua Achebe says in his book. I forget the exact name of the bird. Maybe Enugu. Achebe says that when men learned how to shoot without missing, the bird learned how to fly without perching."
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