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    "id": 357446,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.T. Anyanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Toboso Anyanga",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion. We must realize as Parliament that the 47 counties we have in this country should not merely be looked at as administrative units but as economic units. It is the first time that we are now looking at what formula is being used to allocate resources so that our counties can take off. It is also clear that looking at the two institutions that have come up with this resource allocation system, both the Treasury and the Commission on Revenue Allocation have used two different formulas but I think they were both based on assumptions because it is just the other day that we saw the operationalization of the county governments. We have governors coming up with the budgets and reading those budget estimates. So, what is coming out clearly is that reality is now dawning on us that indeed the cost of running county governments may be so much higher than what the Treasury had estimated. Therefore, I tend to look at the formula which the CRA used and"
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