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    "id": 1527192,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wundanyi, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Danson Mwashako",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill which is important. As it has been pointed out earlier, this Bill came into this House and we passed it with amendments. It was taken to Senate, but they did not agree with us. It was subjected to mediation which did not result in any positive fruits. Therefore, it expired because there was no agreement at the mediation stage. Therefore, this Bill has come a bit late in the financial year. We only have another three months to the end of it. Therefore, the faster we process this Bill, the better for this country, so that funds can be taken to the counties or grassroots. The projects that are envisaged are supposed to be implemented. Having said that, I have gone through the schedule. Counties need to get out there and inform the public that they receive money from the national Government, the equitable share. They also receive money under conditional grants and unconditional grants. Most counties do not exercise the public financial management principle of transparency to the public. They insist that the only money they receive from the national Government is from the divisional share. They insist that they receive equitable share of specific billions, but they do not tell the public that many of the projects that they see are funded by the conditional and unconditional grants. A quick summary, I might say: I just picked three or four counties receiving money under the Bill. I have seen that Nakuru County will receive Ksh1.5 billion as conditional grants. That is additional revenue. Nyamira County will receive a total of Ksh410 million and Tharaka- Nithi County a total of Ksh593 million. Taita/Taveta County, where I come from, will receive Ksh1.3 billion in additional revenue. That is a substantial amount of money. That said, it is exciting that Parliament is appropriating this money back to counties to touch very specific areas that have perennially been troublesome. We are also giving conditional grants to pay the CHPs that have had long outstanding issues with counties. We know that the national Government has been trying very hard to pay their part of the bargain, the Ksh2,500 per CHP. However, many county governments have not been paying their part. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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