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    "id": 1522765,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to inform the House and jog your memories a bit. You know we have come from a very long recess. Last year, we published the County Additional Allocations Bill for Financial Year 2024/2025. The Bill went to the Senate and they included the Roads Maintenance Levy Fund. (RMLF) money in it. We were to go into mediation but unfortunately the mediation process lapsed at the end of the last session. We republished the Bill without the RMLF money and it has been read the First Time. We will process it without RMLF, because that is the right thing to do. It is good time to speak to our colleagues in the other House. I had an engagement with two governors. Let me not mention their names here. One of them told me that their county has funding of about Ksh1.1 billion from the Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project (KISIP). They cannot access the money because other governors want to fight over RMLF. They were telling me they would get only Ksh113 million for RMLF. The governor asked me what sense there is to fight over Ksh113 million and lose money that should go to the most critical elements like healthcare, water provision, and improvement of urban roads that would help the county to generate additional revenue. There are a few governors who cling on to the RMLF issue. When we were debating this Bill last year, we reminded governors that back in 2021 when we had the same stalemate, the national Government added a whooping Ksh53 billion to the Division of Revenue Bill to cater for county roads. Ask Kenyans anywhere in this country where they see governors constructing roads."
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