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    "id": 357574,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/357574/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Kibra",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is an honour to make my maiden speech after a technical contribution in the early day of this Eleventh Parliament. I rise to support this Motion with reservations particularly on the amount of funds that are being allocated, as many Members have said, to the county governments. We cannot shortchange them and set a culture of shortchanging our county governments, if we are serious about devolution right from the start. As someone from Nairobi County which requires a minimum of Kshs17 billion to run per year, when we are talking about averages, it does not make sense because the averages will come to about Kshs6 billion. Where will Nairobi County which needs Kshs17 billion get adequate funds if we do not make a full basket of funding for full devolution for all the counties? So, while I support the Bill, I really want to urge that we make amendments tomorrow that will compel the Government to provide full funding of at least Kshs230 billion to our county governments. Our county governments are independent and separate from the national Government and there is no equivocation there and there should not be any confusion whatsoever. They should be given the full respect they deserve just as we deserve full respect and independence for this House."
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