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    "id": 1289264,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to Move the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 23 of 2023) to be read a Second Time. This is a Bill which I hope will establish an Act of Parliament to provide for additional allocations to the county governments for the Financial Year 2023/2024 and state the responsibilities of the national Government and the county government pursuant to such allocations and for connected purposes. The House will recall that when we were passing the Bill for the Division of Revenue, many people who do not know how devolution works, especially from the Minority side and who have also refused to read, were calling us names that we were denying county governments money. That is far from it. Those who are champions of devolution, a majority of whom are on the Government side, knew that there was no Bill in this House for allocating money to counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Bill which was before the House was for dividing money between the national and the county governments. We needed to do it responsibly so that both Governments continue functioning. We did it and gave Kshs385.6 billion and I am glad that time has now come for us to give more money. If this Bill goes through, county governments will now enjoy an excess of Kshs402 billion. I, therefore, request colleagues that we support this Bill. It is important also that as we support it, we tell members of the public that additional grants were agreed on by the National Assembly and this Senate during the consideration of the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). Most of these conditional allocations to each county government from the national Government share of revenue for the Financial Year 2023/2024 shall be as set out in the First Schedule. I invite Members to read for themselves this Schedule. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, by proceeds of loans or grants from development partners to each county government for the Financial Year 2023/2024 shall be as set out in Column P of the Third Schedule The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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