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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "the 47 county governments? Is that the reason why Sen. Ali Roba and his team would wish that we provide this amendment to Clauses 5 and 6 to ensure that there is a direct transfer to the specific CRF of a particular county? I thought there was a general application. Maybe, I should have asked the Chairperson of this Committee in private but help me to wonder aloud with the rest of the Senators so that they appreciate it also. It will be important for Senators to know that before the advent of this particular Bill, it was the National Treasury that was to determine the counties that were to benefit from the Conditional Grants and we only had specific counties benefitting from this particular project. We felt that it was unfair to the rest of the devolution family because we believe in the principle of equity. We believe that all 47 distinct county governments are equal before the law. That is why we moved the House and it agreed with us that this House should be the principal organ that does the distribution of resources. Today, if we are to run a project in five counties, we can justify to the rest of our colleagues that the other 42 have missed out, but somehow, they will be beneficiaries in the next Financial Year. That never used to be the case. It is for that reason that I get concerned when we have this amendment. I hope Sen. Ali Roba can convince me before we take the vote on why it has to be specified into the CRF account of the specific counties without listing those particular counties. With those very many remarks, I beg to support our Committee and appreciate them for the very good work that they have done. Thank you."
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