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    "id": 387282,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, one thing that I also wanted to talk about concerning this Bill is that we had differences with the Senate over how much to allocate to counties. No one is now asking why the counties, through the governors, are requesting the national Government not to give them Kshs70 billion to pay salaries. These are some of the things we are talking about. Before you even tell us to give the Senate Kshs200 billion or Kshs300 billion - they may need even Kshs400 billion - do the costing of the functions. That is very important. Once you do the costing of the function and you have the benefit of that, then it is very easy to agree as a country that this is the amount that we need to run our counties. Actually, there is no Member of Parliament here who will want the counties to fail. If at all that Member of Parliament is here, then I think he is living in history. These Members of Parliament should strive to ensure that the counties succeed. I call upon the Senate, the Transitional Authority (TA), the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and the Council for Governors to sit down and come up with the costing of the functions."
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