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    "id": 1437230,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. We worked so hard to ensure our counties get Kshs400 billion. We are now distributing those monies to our counties. This Bill shows that my county is getting an additional Kshs190 million. I urge the governor and his people to prioritize key areas. Number one is the Early Childhood Development Centres, where we face the challenges of paying salaries. There are many issues with vocational training centres, and many are almost collapsing. We would like to see more money being sent to our counties. As the country is going through the debate of how to allocate more money to the counties, a few are talking about one man, one shilling one vote. We need a conversation on how to protect small counties such as Vihiga, Elgeyo, Marakwet, Lamu and the others. We need to start thinking of how we will make these counties productive in our formula. That is a debate that some of us who are representing those counties will be coming up with. Therefore, for now, the money that we send to our counties must be used very well. As another Senator said, as the Senate, we need to be very proactive on oversighting our various counties to ensure that we do not act as morticians, but we can oversight the money in our counties. The biggest problem is the late disbursement of funds. I agree with the Senators who had spoken earlier that this is a problem that we need to deal with as a Senate. Very soon, we will be passing the Cash Disbursement Schedule that has clear dates. How I would wish that in that Disbursement Schedule, we need to state very clearly that whenever there is a delay in disbursing funds to the counties, the National Treasury owes us an obligation of full disclosure of why there is a delay. The situation now is that when there is a delay, no one talks to us and the counties and they have to perpetually keep on waiting. This House deserves to get a disclosure from the National Treasury whenever there is a delay in disbursing funds to our counties. I will be moving a Motion in that regard so that when there is a delay, the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary---"
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