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    "id": 1464055,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1464055/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "I remember in 2013, the Governor for Nyeri County, the late Hon. Gakuru, mooted some amazing ideas on how to bring about county economic blocs. This is critical because that one Governor, and God rest his soul in peace, is one of the people who were behind Vision 2030. When he was elected Governor, he realised that his government in Nyeri is such a small economic entity that it might not be able to do what he intends to do in his vision. He called upon the 11 counties in the Mount Kenya Region to form an economic bloc that would be a viable entity that would even be able to sit across the table even with some of our development partners. Today, even a county like Nairobi, big as we imagine it to be, is not a viable economic entity that would sit across the table with our bilateral partners on a bilateral conversation because what we see as county revenue here, is negligible in the whole scheme of things. Even as we resource these counties from our monies, we should call upon counties to reimagine how they approach their county economics and economic blocs would be one of those things. As was moved by Hon. Chairman, it is now incumbent upon counties to take this up so that they can spur development in their counties. They also need to check what is provided for in the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda so that what they are doing is in line with what the national Government is doing so that there is no competition in carrying out some projects and that there is also no duplication of roads. This Bill provides for conditional allocations as financed from the national Government in the First Schedule. In the Second Schedule, it provides for what is coming from the Roads Maintenance Fuel Levy. In the Third Schedule, there is that which is coming from court fines. Finally, royalties from mining and other natural resources is what is carried in this Bill. That said, I would like to second. Thank you very much."
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