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    "id": 1584722,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": "I inform Members that the National Assembly had proposed to allocate an equitable share of Ksh405.1 billion to counties, while the Senate had proposed to allocate Ksh465 billion. We held four meetings in the course of our mediation. The process of mediation requires extensive consultations. To date, I thank the various stakeholders who engaged us in the process of arriving at a mediated figure. I thank the President of the Republic of Kenya because we had to engage the presidency at some stage, to help us iron out some of the challenges that we had in the process. I also thank the National Treasury because we had to talk to it so that we could arrive at a figure agreeable to both parties. We learned so many things in the process of mediation. County governments are doing many tremendous programmes which most of our Members are not aware of. Many times, you find most of us castigating counties and saying they are not making very good progress. I confirm to this House that we realised counties are doing so much, especially in facilitating national programmes like in the health sector."
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