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    "id": 536900,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Moi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 305,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Kipsiele Towett Moi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I would like to congratulate the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget for a splendid job done and all those who participated in the making of this Bill. There is one aspect which if you look at the total equitable and the conditional, it comes to Kshs291 billion. I wish we could have taken it up to Kshs300 billion. That arises because the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the National Assembly is not burning the midnight oil. They should burn candles at both ends so that we should be talking of the 2013/2014 accounts. By doing so, we would be doing service to our counties. The problem we are having at the counties is basically lack of funds. We have counties which cannot make ends meet let alone look for money for development. If we had used the 2013/2014 financial accounts, we would have found a way of increasing the funds to the counties. Our job as guardians and protectors of the counties has to be appreciated. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to congratulate the Committee for what they have done to the Level 5 Hospitals; the increase of funding to Kshs1.563 billion and the proposed allocation for salary awards by Kshs1.8 billion and the Kshs4.4 billion allocated towards the establishment of the county emergency fund. This is highly critical. In Baringo County, we have been having issues with regard to insecurity. We have had situations where we have over 30 schools being shut down because of insecurity and yet the governor does not have funds to reopen them. With the funds which the Committee has allocated them, it will give us a good opportunity to get everybody to go back to school. Baringo County and Kitui counties have been fighting to get the Equalization Fund. I can see from the Bill that there is some good news to this end. The money which has been reallocated like the Kshs2.5 billion from the national irrigation project was well thought out because griculture has been devolved. Nowadays, you wonder why Kilimo House has six floors of people working for the agricultural department when they should have been devolved to the county level. We hope that next year, we shall have hit the Kshs300 billion mark which we will send down to the counties. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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