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    "id": 1425097,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "Cheptumo William Kipkiror",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I agree with my colleagues who have spoken before me. On the membership whose names you have read, I have no doubt in my mind that they have the capacity to match the team from the other side. When the debate on this Bill was done in the National Assembly, I had a moment to listen to the discussions. There is a very serious concerted effort to mislead the country that governors do not deserve more money. The reason which I know my colleagues heard is because they claim that there is corruption. I do not deny there is corruption in our counties. However, the solution for that vice of corruption is not to deny the county governments resources, but to put in place measures to deal with the corruption. Secondly, they only spoke about two things in the entire debate; that if you increase the money for counties, you will be reducing NG-CDF. Secondly, when you increase the money for counties, you reduce the money for the Women Representatives. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is very narrow because the argument here is the budget allocation. I call upon my colleagues who will represent us in that committee to make leaders from the other side to understand that our push for more resources to counties is not about reducing NG-CDF money. It is a constitutional requirement---"
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