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    "id": 429049,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/429049/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ngong’o",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
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    "content": "We have finally given Kshs226 billion, but the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) had proposed Kshs279 billion. However, the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council meeting, which is provided for in the Constitution and in the law, chaired by the Deputy President, has heavy representation from counties. All the 47 executive officers responsible for finance are members of that committee together with the Council of Governors. Also, we have the CRA, Parliament and the Judiciary represented, among others. That committee agreed on Kshs238 billion. Therefore, Kshs238 billion minus Kshs226, the difference is about Kshs12 billion. So, what the counties can effectively say that they needed more and they did not get is Kshs12 billion. Again, out of that Kshs12 billion, if you look at the analysis of the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council meeting, you realize that part of the Kshs238 billion was the entire amount for the rural electrification. This, therefore, means that the Kshs3.65 billion that has been put to the national Government would have gone to the counties to provide the same thing, namely, electricity, which is now going to be provided by the Kshs3.65 billion."
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