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    "speaker_name": "The Senator for Kisumu County",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’Nyong’o): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was a Member of the District Development Committee (DDC) of Kisumu District for 10 years, and I do remember very clearly; we raised this issue where every March, we could assemble to pass a budget and then in May, we could go around the district supervising the money that had been invested, and there was very little to show for the money that we had passed. And there were cases where contractors were actually given cheques to perform projects which they never performed. These are the kind of things we are talking about and they are there in the books, and we can look at them. Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, which is very important and which is the point I was making, these statutory deductions owed by municipal councils or county councils then are actually money that is owed from one government body to another government body. So, it can very easily be sorted out without necessarily we, as Senators, voting money to our counties today and then using that same money to pay the statutory deductions. It does not make sense. What we need to do, as the spirit of this Motion says, is for us to look at these monies owed and let the Government sort them out government to government or department to department. The last point I want to make before moving my amendment, Mr. Speaker, Sir, is that in terms of development, if indeed the counties are going to engage themselves with the act of development, we must make sure that they have a bigger development budget than a recurrent budget because---"
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