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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support the Report by the Committee on Finance and Budget on this particular Bill. The Report in itself signifies the importance of this House in ensuring that we protect devolution. As we do so, there is the headache that cuts across everyone’s mind in terms of additional resources, which we are pushing to our county governments, their utilisation and implementation of projects within county governments for the benefit of the people in the counties. This division of nationally raised revenue is aimed at ensuring that there is a possible utilisation of those resources to ensure that inequalities, which are normally expressed by various county governments at various levels are achieved. The Committee has gone out of its way to encourage Members and also seek support to ensure that this revenue is added to county governments, so as to ensure that services are provided to the people at all levels. As we propose additional revenue to county governments, we also expect that abuse of these resources is going to be minimised. Over time, we have been talking about governors who are reluctant to appear before various committees of this House in order to justify utilisation of resources. We hope that even as this House gives county governments additional resources, when they are called upon to come and account for, they are going to honour, in order to make sure that resources are used for the purpose that is expected. 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 and AudioServices, Senate."
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