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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, through this Motion, we are requesting that those counties which found themselves in a predicament like ours, each of them with a different story, they should be supported. You will recall that when the Division of Revenue Bill came into this House after it had been considered by the National Assembly, certain amendments were proposed by the Senate, among them that counties which could not manage the money allocated to them be given some extra consideration. Those of us who come from disadvantaged counties like Nyandarua also put in a case that if you only facilitate the ones which have a shortfall of money to run facilities which are already there, we will continue being in a situation where we shall never catch up. The formula which the Senate came up with, although the other House had difficulties with it, was such that some of these counties like Nyandarua, going by the formula which was given by the Senate, would have got an extra Kshs793 million which would have been a good start to build our offices for the headquarters and so on. At the moment, our Governor sits in some office above a shop and the county assembly sits in a church hall, courtesy of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA). This kind of situation is completely unacceptable under the current circumstances. When you have a nice home and so on, it is very difficult for you to understand that there are some people who are being rained on because they have no home. It is by the same token that I would like to urge the Senators to support those of us who have no houses and are being rained on. Some of you have very good infrastructure in your counties, but for us, we are begging for your support."
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