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    "content": "Hon. Senators, I hope that we shall move a Bill in this House that will state clearly that funds that go to county governments should not be used for recurrent expenditure. They should be used for development purposes if we want to change the lives of our people. Should we say that those funds should be used for both development and recurrent expenditures, then we must clearly state in that Bill what percentage we would like to go towards recurrent expenditure. In my view, it should not be more than 15 per cent. All funds at the county governments, up to the tune of 85 per cent, we should deliberately make sure in a statute, that amount is purely for development. That way, our counties will change. This country has a history. There are some counties that were enjoying devolution without devolution. This is because every year it was mandatory that funds for water and electricity go to Nyeri and funds for roads should go to Kiambu. This has been going on for 50 years. When you come from such privileged counties, you will be keeping quiet and lying low in this House because we are very angry and tense when we fly over your counties and---"
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