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    "content": "refer to and these figures are referring to some counties as harmless and Kshs17 million has been allocated to take care of these harmless counties. How harmless are they because I do not know where this term “harmless” is coming from. It is not constitutional. I think as a Committee, we need to relook at it and see how we can reallocate this Kshs17 million across all the counties. I cannot see how one county will have a deficit and another has a surplus or another county is being told that the money you applied for is sufficient whereas the other one is being told that the money is not enough. How are they arriving at all these? Those counties that are being said not to have enough money are the counties that are actually well established. I do not know whether each one of you was given that paper. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, this money that is being retained at the national Government is colossal. Unless we know the schedule or the details behind this figure, we might be approving something that may not help us but work against the counties. So, in our Committee, we are going to ask either the Treasury or whoever has prepared these figures to give us a tabulation so that we can understand why the national Government is spending so much money but sending little money which is not enough to all the counties. We are told that if Kshs210 billion is given out, 21 counties will not be able to access the money. That is why they are setting aside Kshs17 billion to be able to cater for that shortfall. We are asking: Why should these counties have a shortfall if everybody did a budget? Does it mean that the budgets of some counties were okay or is it being applied in isolation? Thank you."
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