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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill (Senate Bill No.1 of 2025), be now read a Second Time. Additional allocations to counties are provided for under Article 202(2) of the Constitution, which stipulates that: “County governments may be given additional allocations from the national Government’s share of the revenue, either conditionally or unconditionally”. Additionally, Article 190 of the Constitution allows for legislative measures to provide further support to counties to enable them to perform their work effectively. This Bill comes to this House in concurrence with the Senate, pursuant to Article 110(4) of the Constitution. We passed a similar Bill in this House on 14th March 2025, and it was forwarded to the Senate. The Senate has not yet progressed with it. This Bill from the Senate varies the amounts that we forwarded with the Bill to the Senate, by about Ksh25.53 billion. That variation by Senate was done because we were responding to the reductions which happened in the Supplementary Estimates II for the 2024/25 Financial Year which we passed. In those estimates, we drastically reduced the estimates in the Bill. This Bill now increases the allocations by about Ksh25.5 billion, making the total allocation in this Bill to Ksh50.04 billion. This variation has received concurrence from National Treasury that has affirmed that, indeed, they will provide for the variation. The variations in this Bill is largely supported from loans and grants from development partners. The development partners have also confirmed that the funds we are providing for in the Bill are ready and once the Bill is passed, the funds will be available to counties to perform their functions. In this Bill, Ksh8.4 billion from the national Government share of revenue will be provided by the National Treasury, while Ksh42 billion is from development partners in the form of loans and grants. I need to highlight that out of the Ksh8.4 billion which will come from the national share of revenue, Ksh1.75 billion is money which is earmarked to county governments to sort out their outstanding salary arrears for health workers. When health workers were on strike, a return-to-work formulae was signed, and it allocated the Ksh1.75 billion to countries to sort out that arrangement. The other issue which is important in this Bill is that we are providing for about Ksh2.9 billion to help counties in what we call County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPs). Counties have done so well in developing these industrial parks which are very important because they are going to be the centres of value addition for local products that are being done in counties. Providing for this allocation is going to fast-track this line of development. Remember, this is one of the key items in the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Model we are implementing as a broad-based Government. The other important item in the Bill has to do with about Ksh42 billion which has been provided for by donors in the form of grants and loans. This allocation is going to be spent in the areas of health, agriculture, water, and sanitation. These programmes are very critical for our people at the grassroots. We need to facilitate our counties so that they are able to receive this money and develop these programmes. When we were doing public participation, 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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