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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Therefore, you end up having those functions going back to counties and money must then follow it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a Bill that then would allow the national Government to add additional resources to counties in areas such as those. We have seen many instances where legislation gives the burden of concurrence between the national Government and county governments. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we were in Turkana for Senate Mashinani, we passed a Bill in both Houses of Parliament on CHPs. That Act of Parliament ended up creating Column B in the Second Schedule of that Act, which required that county governments should have a 50 percent share with the national Government. The national Government contributes to the stipend of the community healthcare promoters and county governments will contribute 50 percent. This is an area which necessitated the idea of having additional allocations. Remember also, we had conditional allocations for the construction of county headquarters. Again, this is a function the national Government had committed to. By last year, we had committed 18 counties. My county of Migori has received over Kshs111 million which we fought for in the last two years in order to get those funds. I had talked about County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPs) which programme is set in Column D of the Second Schedule of this Bill. That said, we know that apart from the dictates of Article 202(2) of the Constitution that requires that the national Government can put additional resources in its budget, and we also have additional funds allocated from proceeds of loans of grants that come from other countries. Among them is what Sen. Cherarkey has talked about, which include the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which is a business development programme supported by those proceeds from loans and grants from our international partners, donors and sometimes, multi-lateral agencies. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have those that come from the World Bank like FLLoCA by the Climate Institute support programmes that we have as well as other finances we get from our international partners. They also form the bulk of the monies we have put in this Bill and they are important. We also have unconditional grants which are also part of additional grants that we are passing in this Bill. They are two and one of them is the proceeds that come from the court fines, emanating from the contravention of county governments legislations. When county governments set the national Government to collect these fines on their behalf, it goes without saying that those proceeds must be channeled back to those counties. Again, that is an agency arrangement we have and in a routine manner. That routine allows for those monies to be ploughed back to the counties that have such an arrangement with the national Government. However, some courts do not have such arrangements with county governments or they do not have courts that have those fines within their precedence. Also in some cases, legislation might be lacking in those counties that might not be featured in Column A of this Bill. There are unconditional allocations that go to beneficiary counties with regard to mineral royalties. This is an arrangement well stipulated under Section 183 of the Mining Act, read together with the Regulations that were established as articulated in Column B 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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