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    "id": 357934,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Bill. However, I would like to make a few comments. As has been said by the Hon. Bishop Ababu Namwamba, the man who came to preach that the soul of the new Constitution of this country is devolution, without devolution the Constitution is deemed to have died or passed on. The amount of money that was initially allocated in this Bill was supposed to be Kshs231 billion but what we are seeing here now is Kshs198 billion with conditional allocation of Kshs43 billion. That money might not be enough to run our counties because that will be the primary vehicle we will use in future for purposes of development in this country. I would like to say that the Treasury needs to look at this. They have not specified how they intend to use even the Kshs43 billion which is conditional allocation. This is with the exception of the Kshs10 billion they have allocated to the referral hospital but it is not known how the remaining amount of over Kshs30 billion will be spent and the counties which will benefit from those funds. Hon. Deputy Speaker, if you look at the estimates for the national Government which were tabled in this House recently, you will find that the Ministry of Devolution and Planning has been allocated Kshs84 billion. I do not see the business or work that, that Ministry has that can consume Kshs84 billion. That is a Ministry that has been created for the purpose of co- ordination and nothing more. The Ministry of Planning used to be active only during the census. Other years they were allocated a budget of between Kshs2 billion and Kshs3 billion, unless this Ministry is being converted to the former Ministry of Local Government that used to run local authorities. The monies that are meant for the counties will be put under that Ministry and the"
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