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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abdirahman",
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        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also stand to support this Motion. I want to give a number of comments. I sat through yesterday afternoon and part of this morning listening to a number of hon. Senators contributing to this Motion. Following the footsteps of the very able Sen. Murungi and the manner in which he spoke, we really need to put things right the way they were and in their order. Yesterday, I listened to a Senator who said the Jubilee Government is generous. Personally, I will not say that this is generosity. Our counties deserve more than what has been indicated and provided here because I have a bone to pick with a number of areas. One of them is on the costing of functions. All over the country, there has been inequity in terms of development. This is mainly because policy makers and planners never understood this country. At one time I said that the national Treasury, devolution and planning cannot work together effectively. They have never worked together collectively. Now allocation of devolved funds is done by the Treasury and the Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA). As much as I trust the CRA, their costing is based on what used to happen in the past. In a broader concept, if you take development across the country in the same pattern, it will not actually be ideal. I come from a place where we have been marginalized for long. Nowadays, we do not say we are marginalized. We are only saying that in terms of policy and legislation, people have not understood us. Hon. Kajwang said the agriculture sector employs over 70 per cent of our population. I totally agree with him. I believe livestock would equally have employed another 70 per cent if we took it seriously, but we never did so. So, I am just saying that when it comes to costing, they must consider issues of pastoral development, so that we equally increase our economic abilities in this county. Of course, poverty levels have somehow been taken care of. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have a problem with what they are calling Conditional Grants. If I may look at Item 4(a), it says this Bill secures financing for ongoing development programmes. This worries us because projects that have been put in place in the past by the national Government did not adequately cover the entire country. If they continue financing projects where they spent so much money and forget about areas that have been forgotten, then what is going to happen? I think we should amend this bit and say that we should secure funding even for new projects. Why must it only be for ongoing projects? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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