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    "id": 1570334,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1570334/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "content": "Constitution. If we are to be faithful to the Constitution, we must give resources to our county governments. We have made it clear that Kshs450 billion is a bare minimum. I know that the Senate has recommended Kshs465 billion. If we can get Kshs465 billion, I will be very happy. The instructions I have is to allocate Kshs450 billion to counties. Something could be more, but nothing less. With Kshs450 billion, the small counties and I do not know why we want to call some counties small. Why should you call your county a small county simply because of the revenue? Why should you call your county small simply because you have a governor who does not know how to be fiscally responsible and prudent? Why should you tarnish the name of your county by calling it small? We have seen “big counties” that cannot make fiscal responsibility sense. We have seen small “small counties” that have undertaken programmes that are transformational. This obsession of “County X” having done 10 kilometres of tarmac, but “County Y---” If we put pressure on the national Government to let go of the money that is sitting at Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) or the Ministry of Roads and Transport, I am sure a few tens of billions will go to the counties and it will be shared out amongst them."
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