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    "content": "unique problem. For example, the County of Homa Bay has a special problem of Mbita Causeway. That is something that should have been dealt with by the central Government a long time ago, but it is there today. If you are going to increase the fish intake on both sides of the causeway, you have to deal with that. If you are going to deal with the issue of the hyacinth, you have to deal with that. That is a specific problem in that area. If you go to Turkana, they have a specific problem of both security and floods. If you go to Kisumu County, Siaya County, Busia County and so on, we have this specific problem in the lake called hyacinth. It does not occur anywhere. It requires a specific response and some budget and technology. If you do not deal with it, the livelihoods of the people will be messed around with. So, I think that when that money was before the Transition Authority, and it was dealing with specific problems of infrastructure, there should have also been some survey done by the Transition Authority regarding what are some of the specific urgent problems that need to be solved in certain counties that require special budgeting. A budget will be spent and the thing will be dealt with once and for all, and we go ahead. If we do not do this, we shall have things dragging on with us unnecessarily and burdening counties with issues which create political, economical and social problems for the people for no reason. This is the opportunity to grab the bull by the horn and deal with some of these specific problems, precisely because infrastructure had been noted as a special problem and money allocated to it. That was a good approach but poorly solved because the thing was equalized and, therefore, made no sense. It did not solve Nyandarua’s problems, for that matter. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while we are debating the Division of Revenue Bill, and waiting for the Appropriation Bill, this issue of special problems in every county, each Senator with their Governors should come out with specific issues that need specific attention and decide whether the money will come from the county government or the central Government, so that we deal with it once and for all, to sanitize this particular budget, so that these things do not become a burden for future budgets. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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