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    "id": 1435867,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutinda",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13206,
        "legal_name": "Boniface Mutinda Kabaka",
        "slug": "boniface-mutinda-kabaka-2"
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    "content": "Governments Additional Allocations Bill (Senate Bills No.19 of 2024). This gives us a total of Kshs455 billion to the county governments. I urge the different county governments to focus not only on development, but also on the animal of pending bills. This has been there for the longest time. Our people are suffering. We have given monies to the counties, but governors are not paying the pending bills. They are playing politics. For example, the Governor of Nairobi City County is focusing more on local and international travel as opposed to giving services and development to the people of this City. That is why we need to change the chairmanship. Some of the observations that we came across as a Committee is the issue of the proposed allocation from the World Bank, which was supposed to be Kshs10.6 billion, but was revised to Kshs10.4 billion. In addition to that, we have inclusion of the conditional grant from the Government of Sweden for the Kenya Agricultural Business Development (KABD) amounting to Kshs733 million. For this grant, county governments are meant to receive Kshs560.1 billion. We also noted the different amounts that have been allocated by the different partners and they have been stipulated in the Bill. I am sure Members have seen the different amounts. I do not need to go to the different amounts and allocations that were adjusted that we noted as a Committee. As I conclude, the Committee recommended that the Senate approves the Bill with the following amendments. I believe we will be able to get to the amendments. That is amendment to Clause 4 of the Bill to delete the phrase. We also agreed that in the First Schedule, the Kshs78.2 million for the headquarters to be issued to Nyandarua County because the other counties have exhausted their share. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to appreciate the office of the National Treasury, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), the Housing Department and the different stakeholders we had for their great input. We were also able to give additional allocation to the different county assemblies. Over 15 county assemblies appeared in our Committee in the last two weeks, and we have been able to make adjustment ceilings for the different county assemblies. With those few remarks, I ask my senior, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, to second."
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