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    "id": 1341947,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Keiyo South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Kimaiyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also stand to support the Report by the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure. As most of my colleagues have spoken, I reject that money from KeRRA to counties be reduced. Let county governments stay on their lane. County governments have their money. County governments are allocated funds through the Appropriations Bill every year. They also collect their own revenue. They get conditional grants from the Government. They also get grants from development partners. Where do they take that money now that they want money that usually takes care of constituency roads through KeRRA? This will not be allowed. For this body called the Kenya Roads Board (KRB) to change ceilings on allocations that go to each constituency, they must come to this House. Lawmakers in this House will deliberate on the issues that are brought to this House. If we agree with them, we will make the changes. But they do not have the right to change those ceilings. We are telling them that they cannot do so until they bring regulations or amendment of the Bill that developed KRB and the ceilings. Otherwise, that is null and void. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the KeRRA money that goes to our constituencies should be increased instead of reducing. As my colleague and senior, Hon. Farah Maalim, has said, county projects are not the feasible ones in our constituencies. It is NG-CDF projects. If you take the little that we use to develop our roads in constituencies and give to county governments, I do not know which direction you are heading. My submission is that the amount of money appropriated through KeRRA should be increased instead of what we get every financial year decreased."
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