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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "discretion. I know that you have been a generous Speaker to us in this House. Perhaps you will consider that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, the issue of budgeting for national functions vis-à-vis county functions is something we must confront. Under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, it is very clear, like day, functions of counties and those of the national Government. This conundrum of the national Government consistently hiding county functions in the budget-making process and taking it to the national Government instead of financing the counties is why this House was formed. This is why Article 96 of the Constitution exists to protect the interests of the counties and the ideology of devolution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to be precise and invite this House to see that Kshs29,774,229,484 is money that has been budgeted by the national Government on purely county functions. There is no excuse structurally, ideologically, financially, operationally, politically, or in whichever form you take it. Even in economic policy, there is no excuse to have this money go to the national Government. We cannot allow this. This Kshs29 billion must go to the counties. In the spirit of the cooperation agreement that President William Ruto and Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga signed recently on the idea of entrenching, promoting, empowering and making sure that devolution works, they said that there is a possibility of concurrence between Parliament and the Executive to give counties even Kshs450 billion. We are now giving them a scientific solution to make sure that this money goes to the counties. The scientific solution is this---"
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