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    "id": 1483743,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "unconditional grants to our counties that we felt were getting lost in between the other broad county governments’ allocation to our counties, where there was a better focus. Mr. Speaker, Sir, pointing out the very glaring errors in this Bill, like the one I have spoken to, justifies the thinking that went into doing a separate Bill by the Senate. This is because, if we were still doing one DORA that has both the shareable revenue and the conditional and unconditional allocation, as was the case previously, then it would be difficult to pinpoint some of these errors. However, the Senate made a wise decision, and reading through this Report, you will appreciate actually why it was important for us to have this separate distinction between shareable revenue and this conditional and unconditional grants to our counties. It is only when we begin to deal with this item by item that you can pinpoint the shortfalls and point out specifically that we pass a law that will, for instance, set out that once we have made a decision, we are setting up these Community Health Promoters, it is defined and known that this is a human resource. These are human beings. They are people with families. They have genuine expectations. They believe that they have a job. They go around our villages treating. Much as we do not remunerate the Community Health Promoters as well as we should, I can give testimony that those I know in various villages in our communities do more work than some of the medical professionals since they are visiting the hundred households that were allocated to them. Therefore, because their salary is already known and the numbers of the Community Health Promoters per county are well defined, their allocation should be rather obvious after factoring in all the other additional costs that come with having them at their place of work. This is part of the lack of fluency in the drafting of some of these Bills. I will continue to point out and challenge staffers and Members of Parliament, like yours truly, who serve in these Committees not to make our work so difficult. These are things that are already specified, and they are known. Therefore, they should not form a basis for argument because we know the exact number of these people, and we should conclude them. It has taken this Committee to point out and remind the whole country that when we made the decision in 2015 to build county headquarters for five counties, I think Isiolo, Lamu, Nyandarua, and two others, we were clear about how much we were going to give them. At that particular time, there was a general understanding amongst all of us who served in the Budget and Finance Committee that because these counties did not have provincial, divisional, or district headquarters at that particular time, we were going to give them a boost. However, we were not going to turn the whole country into sponsors for them as such if you are unable to conclude on building this project, like I have seen a case in a county which I do not want to mention, because as Senate Majority Leader, people may interpret that I have something against that specific county. However, that county is listed here, and I like that the Committee has pointed out that this county has taken more than their projected share, and we cannot give them the Kshs78 million that is being projected. Let them find within their resources because the rest of the other four counties, that is, Lamu, Isiolo, and the rest, have concluded with the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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