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    "id": 482487,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waweru",
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        "legal_name": "Dennis Kariuki Waweru",
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    "content": "I would not finish before I comment on the talks that I have heard in the media talking about increasing the devolved funding to an excess of Kshs435 billion. I am a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and I have been wondering where this money will come from. If you look at the revenues that we collected in the last financial year, it was around Kshs1 billion. If you see how the application was done, you will see that we devolved Kshs226 billion and we gave Kshs150 billion to security; Kshs260 billion to the Ministry of Health and in servicing and repayment of debts, in excess of Kshs300 billion. So, I wonder when I hear the governors talking about wanting more revenue. If you look at my county; Nairobi, we are talking of a Budget of an excess of Kshs300 billion. The devolved amount is Kshs12 billion. They are not talking about what they collect, but about what is devolved. We are asking them: Can you account for what you collect even before you tell us that you want more funding? We would like them to start accounting and telling us what they are doing with what they are collecting within the counties. I am trying to introduce a Bill in Parliament soon where I am going to recommend that going forward, we want devolution to be taken to the next level. As you know, from experience, we have had the CDF working perfectly well. I am soon going to recommend that devolution should be taken to the constituency level. This is informed by the fact that if you look, for example, at the Nairobi County and take the Kshs12 billion that has been devolved, if you divide it with the number of the constituencies in Nairobi, it means that we are supposed to get Kshs800 million in Dagoretti South. You can just imagine how much you can do with the Kshs800 million. We are saying that our money is getting lost somewhere. We are not even talking about adding money to these governors. We are saying that whatever has been devolved should be divided and taken to the next level of the constituency. You can imagine how much the Members of Parliament are doing with Kshs70 million to Kshs80 million of the CDF. If we get Kshs800 million today, I think I will tarmac all the roads in Dagoretti South and maybe sustain some of the old people. I do not think there will be any hospital without medicine or any road that will not be tarmacked. I will not The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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