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    "id": 1626281,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1626281/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill, the County Governments Additional Allocations (No.2) Bill (Senate Bills No.8 of 2025). This is an important Bill and we must give its history for our colleagues to recall how it came about. Yesterday, I got into a lot of trouble for relaying very useful information which I thought would have helped one of our colleagues. While they disagreed with it, they went on to say many other things. History is important and people must understand the perspective. I continue to be proud of the work that we did in the Committee on Finance and Budget when I was a Member in the last two Senates. This is one of the signature Bills of that Committee. I do not know if the Members know that the conditional and unconditional grants to our county governments, used to be unregulated. What would happen is that an international agency like the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) would propose to support a particular thematic area with regards to county governments and some mandarins at the National Treasury would determine where to place those projects. I do not know who they are, but I hear there are mandarins there. My interaction with them has left me with the impression that they are just good citizens. Anyway, I am just being your average Kenyan."
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