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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also rise to make comments on this Bill. I know there are several proposals. There was one by CRA of Kshs17 billion, then the National Treasury Kshs405b illion. Kenya Kwanza leadership and the ODM leaderships agreed on Kshs450 billion. So I do not know from where the National Treasury came up with the Kshs405billion. If you remember, in the current financial year, we had agreed on Kshs405 billion. They reduced it to Kshs380 billion, and then eventually, during the mediation, we went back to Kshs387.5 billion that included Kshs425 million for libraries whose services were devolved. As the Senator for Elgeyo Marakwet County, the County has just been getting Kshs4.8 billion. For the last 10 years, I have said many times in this House that there are some 10 counties or so that are getting less than Kshs6 billion. The business that these counties have been doing basically has been putting up Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) infrastructure, paying salaries for employees, maintenance and evaluation. There is nothing meaningful or a flagship projects that they have undertaken. If we go this way, I have said that in the next few years, some counties such as Elgeyo Marakwet, Lamu, Tharaka Nithi and Isiolo, basically devolution will have only benefited us in terms of payment of salaries, but no meaningful development. As a Senate, I do not think we will support this Bill. We will ensure we do not pass it, so that we go into mediation. Let us get the Kshs450 billion, so that our counties can do some meaningful development to our people. The reason for devolution was to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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