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    "id": 390343,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/390343/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "No, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir; certainly not by my dear friend. That was the objective, but given that the percentage in the Constitution is fixed at 0.5 per cent which is only 3.4 billion this year. For instance, that amount over the 14 counties amounted to an average of Kshs200 million. Clearly the rationale here by CRA of limiting the number of marginalized counties is so that the amount that can be given should have a meaning. If you are going to distribute it to over 20 or 30 counties, you will have a situation where the figure will be Kshs10 million to Kshs20 million. It is not going to achieve the objective in the Constitution of bringing up all those counties in terms of infrastructure to that level. I think the solution to this matter is in the amendment to the Constitution so that that figure should not be less than 5 per cent. That is the only way you can give something meaningful to the counties so that they can come up. But otherwise, spreading Kshs3 billion to over 21 counties will mean each getting about Kshs100 million which is not going to address the problem. For example, Kitui has coal, Baringo has geothermal, Mandera is looking for oil, et cetera . Let us try to raise the figure to 5 per cent so that infrastructural issues which is the objective---"
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