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    "id": 1563256,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would also wish to register my concerns with that Committee with regards to another issue that has emerged in our county governments. We said this when we were passing the County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee (CPIC) reports toward the period we went on recess. We hurriedly passed I think almost 50 reports combined here on very topical issues in our county governments. These included maladministration, governance challenges and so on and so forth. It is not right that featuring prominently from the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations nothing has been said on what we as Senate need to do. It is not a good situation when we are being told that on average 90-99 per cent of the counties are spending on average 10-20 per cent only of all these funds we are talking about as devolved funds on development. The rest is in recurrent expenditure and other charges that were not the original intent of devolution. The Committee must lead this House into a conversation whether we, as a House, are concerned with this situation and are happy to content, and leave it as it is. There is no need to fight here to push the figures to Kshs450billion yet we know that close to 80 percent is going to pay salaries and how people travel. On average, every county perhaps one would hardly find two to three per cent of the county population works in the county government. If that two to three per cent in"
}