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    "id": 1527228,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1527228/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lari, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kahangara Mburu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to also add my voice to the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill. From the outset, I am in support of this Bill. Devolution was brought about so that it can bring funds closer to the people. That way, people do not have to come to Nairobi, the central government, looking for funding. On this particular one of the additional funds, I am in support of the CAIPs. When we were campaigning, this was one of the agenda items; that we are going to have industrial parks in every county which are meant to help on issues of value addition. That whatever we are producing in our farms, we are able to add value and they will now get into the market, probably stay longer and we can reach out to more markets. Therefore, I am in support. On the CHPs, they were also supposed to be paid by the county governments. Remember CHPs are visiting our homes and offering services which our people would actually not reach other than when they go to hospitals or dispensaries. Now that half of their pay has been coming from the national and county governments, the national Government has been remitting their money but county governments are not paying them. Because of the kind of work they are doing, and I know that these people have been suffering while offering very good services to people right in our homesteads, I support the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill. However, Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I said, devolution was to bring funds closer to the people, I would also say that we have a problem with our counties, governors and usage of the funds that are given to our counties. You will find that the county government workers are staying for months without getting their salaries. We have very many pending bills. In the last ten years that we have had devolution, there are pending bills. Some people have died while others have had their properties auctioned by banks simply because they work for county governments and they have not been able to pay them up to date. This shows that the kind of work the county governments are doing by giving contracts when they do not have funds, is something that we might call out governors, and tell them that it must come to an end."
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