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    "id": 1584736,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1584736/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "many Kenyans are still suffering for lack of medication in their county hospitals at a time when hundreds of billions are being devolved every year to our county governments. We just came from a painful journey with the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF). Walk to any county in this country, Members of the County Assembly (MCA) say openly that the RMLF is the only money they would get to eat. Therefore, we are saying it here that when Governors get the RMLF money, we must be emphatic and give conditions that will ensure that it goes specifically to constructing roads; not just murram roads, but they must tarmac the roads. I know we are about to do legislation around the issues that the courts made a decision. We must conditionalise that money to ensure that there is no county in this country is without a shopping centre or some sort of urban population, and that at least that goes to tarmac roads in those urban centres. If they are doing rural roads, they must be the ones already identified in work plans by the Kenya Roads Board (KRB) so that we stem the abuse of all these monies going to the counties. We cannot give Ksh415 billion in sharable revenue then it is all stolen. If you look at the Controller of Budget’s Report, you will be shocked by the percentage of money going to development in this sharable revenue. This is because if I am elected the Governor today, I will fire ward administrators, sub-county administrators and village liaison officers who are on permanent and pensionable terms employed by my predecessor in the county. When a new governor comes into office, they recruit their own kin, friends and campaigners into the same permanent and pensionable jobs. They then start crying all over that they have no money for development. You have no money for development because you have failed in governance. You do not have to employ every person who campaigned for you. Grow the economies in the counties, and your supporters and those who campaigned for you will get jobs when economies in your counties are growing. When roads and hospitals are functional, those economies will thrive. In return, all your supporters and citizens in your counties will have job opportunities."
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