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    "id": 1626291,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1626291/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": "Generation Formula that is now available. It the second time that Nyandarua is benefiting from an affirmative action exercise. I wish Sen. Methu was here when I am speaking about this because I have a message for him individually as a leader and for the people of Nyandarua. That was not the first time they are benefiting from this Kshs454 million. When we had demonstrations recently, a whopping I think, 35 county governments vehicles, together with the same headquarters that we had given to them under affirmative action, was razed down by protesters. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you receive support from the rest of the country, that they appreciate that you have unique challenges. Then in the spirit of madness, that captures and is urged on by certain lost characters, clever by half-fools who think that by inciting young people to burn around their country, they pass a message of dissatisfaction, you burn the entire building together with 40 vehicles. That was really unfortunate. Yet, these are part of the resources that we are distributing. There is also money to County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPS). You remember there are counties that have not benefited equally. This is the 250 share contribution. I am not sure and the Vice-Chairperson is here of Finance and Budget Committee. I am not sure whether this Kshs4.5 billion now clears the list of the remaining counties. You remember last financial year, I think about 17 counties benefited. It is my hope and assumption that now we will complete that business. This is because there are counties where the contractor has done significant amount of work, but they cannot move beyond where they have reached, because the counties have exhausted their counterpart funding. Remember the county governments were to contribute Kshs250 million and the national Government was to give another Kshs450 million. This is money to those remaining 18 counties, including Kericho. There is also funds that are being allocated and these are the various programmes. Sen. Maanzo and my colleagues, we have to do something about these various donors funded projects in our county. We need to keep an eye, Sen. Omtatah. Now in this list, there are about 10 different programmes that are being implemented by donor agencies in our counties, some by grants and loans. They come with unique propositions; you can only use these funds to do particular programmes. If we do not keep a keen eye, then you will get to a point where you will lose track of the number of programmes that are being run in your own county and that fund will be misused. When the first one slum upgrading programme started, many county governments went to the nearest slum and gave contractors who did not know how to lay a centimeter of tarmac. Since they had finally been granted an opportunity to lay tarmac in the name of upgrading a slum, some mixed dust with black waste oil and burnt it on the road and said that there was a new tarmac road that has been built. Within a few months of the long rains, for those of us that come from areas where there are long rains, the whole supposedly “tarmac” had been washed away. This is because of programmes that are conceptualized here in Nairobi by people in National Treasury, people who sit in high offices in the form of donors. They want to work directly with our counties with very little involvement in the Senate. 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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