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    "id": 1408659,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Thank you, much Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to make my comments on this Bill. In reference to Article 96, I find this as one of the most important Bills that we process, not that the other Bills that we process here are not important. This Bill that will denote money that will be send to the counties for the next financial year is important. When most of us get an opportunity to go to the villages, we talk to our people and remind them that our work here is to defend devolution. Every time we speak, we say that functions must be taken to the counties. However, there cannot be functions without resources. So, we have to always speak strongly about pushing resources to county governments. Looking at the Bill that we are dealing with and the money we are talking about, I do not want to say that the National Assembly was not fair in terms of distribution of the national revenue vis-à-vis money that we will send to county governments. However, we have to look at different things. We have a very good committee of the Senate that has always been prudent. That is the Committee on Finance and Budget. This is where I want to stress my contribution. The proposal to send Kshs415 billion to counties as proposed by the Sen. Ali Roba’s committee is what we, as the Senate, should canvass. It will be a big win especially to devolved units. There is a Statement that was requested by the Senator for Garissa. We have been grappling with the question of floods that have hit our country. We know that disaster management is a reserve of county governments. If we cannot send money to county governments, but we ask for services, we are being unfair to them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not want to say more. I support that we should send more money to the counties. That is my submission. I thank you."
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