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    "id": 1558901,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1558901/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Ministry of Social Protection. As Members of Parliament, we only receive communication indicating that money has been credited to the accounts of the elderly. However, among the elderly, you may find someone aged 70 getting the money, while someone aged 75 does not. These people do not have a way of appealing. This Bill creates an appeal mechanism for people to appeal to the Board. It also creates a board responsible for disbursing the funds. The Board will also have extensions and mechanisms in place. This Bill addresses coordination between the national Government and the county governments and thereby, creating a comprehensive mechanism. We, currently, have a contentious County Allocations Revenue Bill in this House. Although we got devolution as a country, we unfortunately, devolved corruption to the counties. Most of the money allocated to the counties does not reach the ward level. Yesterday, I saw the Controller of Budget, Dr Margaret Nyakang’o, making a very serious allegation. She said that once the county governments have made a requisition for pending bills, they do not use the funds as intended. The funds released are not used to pay for what it has been approved for. Instead, county governments go ahead and reallocate the money. The Controller of Budget is not able to verify whether they are doing what they had requisitioned for. This is a glaring case of corruption. I do not know whom the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) is waiting for, because this is very glaring corruption, and action needs to be taken. Even the fight over the Road Maintenance Levy is not about building roads for the people. We have seen what the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) and the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) have done. In the constituency, once KeRRA has built a road, counties often come and put up a board claiming the road was done by the county government. The money that was supposed to build that road then disappears. Therefore, the fight is not about building roads, assisting"
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