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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "With that, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to appreciate the tenacity and effort that has been put by the Committee on Finance and Budget in terms of scrutinizing what was forwarded by the National Assembly because those particular additional allocations to county governments in those four different categories that have mentioned have been well articulated. This is one of the efforts that is a fundamental duty of this Senate in terms of making sure that counties do get enough and adequate resources to carry out their functions and provide services and opportunities to our people at the county level. In fact, by passing this Bill in this House today or next week, if the debate today does not allow for division, we will unlock a lot of money to Migori County. There are additional unconditional allocations that I have talked about that will go to Migori County Government. On court fines alone, the money that will go to Migori County is about Kshs974,000. Migori County is the bedrock of serious mining activities. If you go to Macalder Mines in Nyatike Constituency and Masara, which partly lies in Nyatike Constituency, the mining activities goes on all the way to Suna West Constituency. You will be impressed by the amount of gold that comes from Migori County. If you go to Rongo Constituency, there are serious deposits of alluvial gold there. Recently we realised that there are a lot of gold deposits at a place called Kehancha in Kuria West. Currently artisanal mining is predominant in that area which is facing a lot of challenges in terms of revenue to people who matter. That is young people, women and men who are always in those mines trying to make a living out of that. Royalties do come from those places. It is only important that those royalties that come from organisations that do mining in Migori go back to our county to serve our people. In this Bill that we will pass, it will interest the people of Migori to know that under additional unconditional allocations for minerals, 20 per cent that will go to Migori County is a whopping Kshs3.125 million. That is very important to announce to the people of Migori because we as the people of Migori must and should always have a way of benefiting from the mineral royalties. The total amount that will be sent there in terms of additional unconditional allocations to what we had given Migori County in the main vertical revenue share of about Kshs9 billion is another Kshs3.6 million that constitutes court fines and mineral royalties. Further to that, it is important that the people of Migori also take note that apart from court fines and mineral royalties, there are additional conditional allocations from the national Government’s share that will go to Migori County. I hope that the County Government will use those monies prudently. One of them goes towards the arrears of county healthcare workers. This was a big issue that made me to be thrown out of Senate for the first time. I was fighting for the healthcare workers. My argument was that the national Government cannot take the payroll of healthcare workers to county 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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