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"content": "billion, but when we add what we have brought here, this money has now ballooned to Kshs438.6 billion! We must go back and ensure that this money is utilized for development. This money is not for recurrent use, but the entire amount is for development. I hope in keeping with what I saw Sen. Thang’wa, Sen. Mungatana, Sen. Mwaruma, Sen. Munyi Mundigi, Sen. Okiya Omtatah, Sen. Osotsi, Sen. Veronia Maina, Sen. Wakili Sigei and Sen. Chimera do, all of us are going to add up how much is going to our counties, so that like in Kakamega, we will be enjoying development worth Kshs1.67 billion. Therefore, let us make sure that this money goes to development. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will make the following running comments arising from Senators’ contributions. Sen. Nyamu pleaded with this House to stop looking at Nairobi through the prism of how people live in Karen and other high-end areas of the city. The four million people who live in Nairobi - Mkuru kwa Njenga, Mathare, Kawangware and so on - are living under very difficult circumstances. Whereas the property index is good for Nairobi; when you look at how people live in these other areas in Nairobi, you realize that Nairobi actually deserves slightly more money than what we have been giving it hitherto. The Second comment that I want to clarify, as raised by Sen. Wambua even today, is on the issue of the specialized medical equipment. Hon. Members, county governments are paying the national Government devolved funds because the procurement of this special medical equipment was done by the national Government wrongly at that time in 2015. Ideally, procurement should have been done by county Governments, so that this money, which is conditional money from the World Bank, meant to go and address the issue of health, would then be given to governors the way we are doing and then they pay. However, because it is the national Government that procured, that is how the money is finding its way back to the national Government. The third issue that arose is of fertilizer. Colleagues, let us be analysing these bills. If you look at this column, the people at the National Treasury do not seem to be working at all. This is because, in giving out money, for example, for fertilizer subsidy, they have given Nairobi for fertilizer Kshs14 .7 million. Where do you want to spend Kshs14.7 million on fertilizer in Nairobi? Do they grow rice or sugarcane? Why not take that money to Kirinyaga or Embu even if you do not like Kakamega? Why not take it to Bungoma? People at the National Treasury, why take the money for fertilizer to Nairobi? We have to face these people in the eye and tell them, if they do not know. We are going to move on the Floor of this House, so that they are sacked. We put there are young people from the University of Nairobi and other universities who can analyse figures and put money where it is merited. The fourth point was on court refunds. If you look at that column on court refunds, you will realize that there is an anomaly. Therefore, for you to understand, the money that is going back for courts is because that money does not go to the Consolidated Fund. Therefore, because it does not go to the Consolidated Fund, the little"
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