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    "id": 531626,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. Allow me to start by regretting that yesterday this House debated a Motion that was not helpful to Kenyans. The House was happy to spend three hours on the Censure Motion but when it comes to the Division of Revenue Bill, there are concerns that we have to move faster. It is time this House put as much time as is required on matters that are important to Kenyans. There is no matter that is as important as devolution to Kenyans right now. As we discuss the Division of Revenue Bill today, we celebrate, as the National Assembly, the increased allocation to the county governments. With Kshs283 billion, we are sure that our counties will do the work that they need to do. A time has also come for this House to consider a ratio of sharing the money in the county governments. The county governments were created for two reasons: development and service delivery. There should be a 50 to 50 ratio in county allocations, with 50 per cent of the funds going to development and the other 50 per cent going to service delivery and, therefore, serving recurrent expenditure. It is regrettable that in the first year we gave the counties Kshs210 billion. In the second year, we gave them Kshs226 billion. We are now giving them Kshs283 billion yet there is not much to show for the funds going to the counties. The answer is obvious. All the counties are spending most of their money on recurrent expenditure. That must stop because recurrent expenditure has never developed countries. Hon. Speaker, recurrent expenditure will not develop our counties. Our counties will develop on the amount of money that they put to development. If they use the larger part of the Kshs283 billion on development, they will see change. At the very minimum, 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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