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    "id": 1266751,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1266751/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank you for your magnanimity. This is the final point I want to make. One of the reasons why the NG-CDF is such an effective entity on the ground is because it is a conditional grant. If money is allocated from the centre to build a toilet at Kirigu Primary School, even the committee in the constituency, the school or user cannot change the use of that money since it is a conditional grant assigned to a particular project. If we make the money we send to counties conditional grants, the counties will register development projects in a way we have never seen before, just like the NG-CDF. The second reason why NG-CDF does so well is because the administrative costs are very little. Being a conditional grant that is administered by a national board, it means there is only a small committee which sits at the constituency, and a very lean staff in the national board. We do not end up with a situation like the one we see in the counties, where a county allocates Ksh330 million to recurrent expenditure and zero to development. That means we have 47 county governments that are only paying salaries. As a result, we end up with projects funded by the NG-CDF as the only visible development taking place in the counties. The billion of shillings that go to the counties end up paying salaries and meeting other expenditures that have no bearing on development. With those remarks, I support the Report fully."
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