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    "id": 1445832,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mandago",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13577,
        "legal_name": "Kiplagat Jackson Mandago",
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    "content": "I intend to bring a statement to this House so that the Standing Committee of Finance and Budget can investigate the alleged pending bills in the Uasin Gishu County Government. Madam Temporary Speaker, as far as I am concerned, because I was the previous Governor of that County, there were no pending bills, except for a Kshs45 million bill to the County Pension Fund (CPF), which accrued from accrual deficits that they were unable to supply documents to support payment during my tenure. Therefore, other than the late disbursement from the national Government, we must also be aware of the change of administration and the abandoning of projects for political reasons. As I finalise, from experience, I would like to state that conditional allocations have done well, in that when funds are precisely set for a specific function and are followed up during execution, there is a tendency to achieve better results. We have seen that with the conditional allocations and grants from the World Bank under the Kenya Urban Support Program (KUSP). Madam Temporary Speaker, those funds did quite a tremendous job in most of our urban areas. Today, the tarmac roads you see in most county and sub-county headquarters are courtesy of those funds that are conditional. I urge this House that even as we work very hard as a Senate to increase funding to counties, we may also consider sending money to specific functions through conditional allocation. Therefore, I support that the national Government disburses the remainder of the funds and counties, regardless of whether the cost of those projects will go beyond the 30 per cent that they had envisaged, put in their own resources to complete those projects, so that the citizens of those counties can benefit. I support."
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