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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "and what the county resources do. Out of this Ksh415 billion, on average, many counties will be getting Ksh8 billion, Ksh6 billion or Ksh7 billion. What do constituencies get? If you combine the entire money of constituencies, it hardly reaches Ksh1 billion per county. When I was getting re-elected, the Suba North people would tell me, “ Waneno giri ma koth goyo oko ”. This means that “we can see the things that are being rained on courtesy of NG-CDF, but for most counties, we cannot see what is being rained on”. If you translate that in the layman's term, they are telling you that either we are putting too much money to recurrent expenditure in the counties, or there is a leakage in terms of expenditure. We must actually do a proper audit of the counties for purposes of discovering where the problem lies. We need to help our counties. It speaks to the issue of prudent management of resources. I am happy that we have considered areas that are very dear to my heart; education that touches on children and young people, the health sector that touches on women, water transport, especially Lake Victoria Ferry, and the blue economy that touches on fishermen. I am very happy on that. I can see the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is managing time. But even as he manages time, I said this when we were ordinary Members with him in the Budget and Appropriations Committee, please consider child welfare in future, with the rampant cases of abuse against children. Consider also gender with the rampant cases of sexual and gender-based violence and femicide. Otherwise, I support. I know we are managing time, but we are sitting until 9.00 p.m. I also yet again, thank Members. The public do not know how dedicated Members are. We sit here until 9.00 p.m. The media will never report. They will only look at the negatives. So, I congratulate the Members. Thank you for sitting this long."
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