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    "id": 528648,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, just to finalise, as captured, the spirit is to push our counties to start from the right footing. We know that currently the national Government is struggling with a lot of recurrent expenditure. We need to help our counties to start on the right footing, manage their recurrent expenditure and to allocate more resources to development. The objective of devolution is development at the grassroots level. If increasingly our counties will continue to have more resources being voted to recurrent expenditure, then the fruits of devolution will never be realised. We also need to appreciate that progressively, every year, through the Division of Revenue Bill and County Allocation Revenue Bill, we, as a Senate, need to continuously increase resources to counties. This means that the level of increased resources going to the counties may not be of the same magnitude that as the recurrent expenditure in the counties. I beg to support the amendment by the Committee."
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