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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": "If we continue to take the length of time that we are taking to make those decisions, no investor will invest in this particular sector. The Bill in total, distributes close to Kshs70 billion across our counties, which includes money in form of court fines. The Kshs2.95 billion is from court fines and mineral royalties. There is Kshs9.95 billion from the national Government share of the Second Schedule and Kshs5.9 billion from proceeds of loans and grants from development partners, which is the Third Schedule. All these things that are listed and you know them. There are quite a number of them. I have always questioned why these loans and grants take the form and shape that they do. There is even a proposal also on the Community Health Promoters (CHPs) of Kshs3.24 billion. There is Kshs454 million to five counties. I must register my disappointment. It was a very difficult task, I remember, here in 2016, to convince the House to build headquarters for five counties, Isiolo, Nyandarua, Tana River, Lamu and Tharaka Nithi. There was a debate in the House because people say we have needs also in our own county. Good reason prevailed and people agreed and said, given that these counties did not have district headquarters back in the day, they do not have even basic infrastructure to set up. Over the years we have continued to pay. It has taken inordinately long to complete that payment. I was disturbed that recently just two days after we had made the decision to add Nyandarua into the list of the counties that are benefiting under the affirmative action--- Remember there were 12 counties that we created that were getting less than Kshs6 billion. We said we needed to find a way of bringing them closer to the rest of the counties. We developed a list of 20 counties and built into the formula, the Fourth The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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