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    "id": 1566751,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, can you, please, protect me from your colleague and also my brother, who wants the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and I do not want it? I will not mention his name. The issue here is that it is important for all of us to be here because this is what brought us here; to fight for money to go to our counties. Every single day, doctors are protesting outside Parliament. They are demonstrating, asking for their money. I am sad that it has taken us almost to the end of the financial year to pass this additional allocations, just because we had a big fight with the National Assembly on the issue of the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF). This is the point where we should divide all these things completely. You will find that Narok County is going to receive about Kshs325 million in loans and other disbursements from the World Bank and other donors like DANIDA. However, will one month allow them to be able to absorb all that money? We need to think seriously on the importance of disbursing this money when that money is due. Coming to the tail end of the financial year to discuss additional allocation of revenue or cash schedule, to me, defeats the purpose of what we do here. It is important also that all counties receive a share of all the court fines. Narok Court normally collects a lot of fines. Why should we not calculate such that whatever 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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