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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Motion. I also participated in the Budget Committee where these recommendations were considered and made. It is really important to emphasize that the recommendations have been arrived at as a compromise position. It is not the most ideal or what those who were in it really expected. But it is also very important to appreciate the fact that the country has come from a very emotive experience when talking about resource allocation, historical injustices and inequality in terms of development. Therefore, the proposal made can only be perceived as the beginning point for building socially acceptable position in terms of resource allocation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while thanking the Commission on Revenue Allocation, it is also important to emphasize that what we are coming up with, is essentially the first experience position. We anticipate that this process can be improved and this improvement can only happen if the country is able to generate data and statistics based on the impact of this mode of allocating resources in the next three or so years. For instance, when it comes to disparity in terms of development, while this proposal anticipates that this disparity will be overcome, the truth of the matter is that the funds under the county are actually meant to go into service delivery taking into account the role of the county government as established within the Constitution. There are other funds that will still be available, not only to county, but to the Central Government to deal with other issues of underdevelopment. Therefore, it will be very interesting for us to see how the waited rates are actually tested in the course of time. One of the responsibilities of the county government is to offer service to the local people and we would like to see how the regions with huge populations will fair on within the mode of allocation that is being proposed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is also important to appreciate the criterion used such as land mass. We will also need to see how the allocated resources will be utilized. Will they be used, for instance, to overcome the historical communication challenges? These are some of the questions that will need to be retraced. There is also the question of fiscal responsibility as a consideration for this. I would like to agree with some of the speakers, like hon. Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o, that we should have given significant weight to this criterion. This is particularly so in the new dispensation. I do not belong to those who hold the view that we are going to have instant solutions to all the problems, especially of poverty and under-development and, more so, with a new system which will have all the challenges of testing and also benchmarking itself. The new incoming institutions are likely to have a lot of challenges with the resources being perceived to be--- Whereas the people think that those resources will go towards their development and addressing their development challenge and service, they are also going to have challenges of governance. It is very important that they also be"
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