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    "id": 1475995,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "revenue. Unfortunately, although that programme is expressed to cost nearly Kshs1.8 billion, it is sufficient to serve 30 per cent of the children of Nairobi, leaving a whopping 70 per cent of the children of Nairobi outside that programme. Now, the promise by the governor is that he plans to expand it so that it can feed all the children of Nairobi by extending it to the so-called up-bed schools, informal schools that carry the majority of the school-going children in Nairobi. We need money. In Nairobi, we need money. I know Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has praised my governor for the revenue-raising measures that have been put in place. Still, we have come nowhere close to the potential of Nairobi as per the estimates from even the CoB herself. So, we need money in Nairobi City County. The most heartbreaking thing for me when I came to this Senate was to discover that you can actually be allocated money in a budget, but receiving it is a different story altogether. We passed the disbursement schedule, which National Treasury has never honoured. What is the point of us passing things here that nobody ever follows? The exchequer, money hitting the county government's account, is a hit-or-miss game. It is just pata potea . You can go for three, two or four months without money and you do not know when it will come. So, it has been disappointing for me to realise that we can put up this fight, and yet, at the end of the day, this money will not reach the grassroots level in the manner it is proposed to reach."
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