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    "id": 542399,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/542399/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "As my colleague said, the National Assembly has the mandate to plan and prepare the national Budget. Even the county governments budgets are not a preserve of the Senate. It should be very clearly understood. I urge this House to reject those amendments, because through my own calculations, it is not even Kshs7 billion. It is coming to Kshs8 billion, and every county government will get Kshs160 million. As we know, Section 110 of the Public Finance Management Act (PFM) Act provides for how to deal with county governments, and they are allowed to spend 2 per cent of their money on emergencies. What is this other money going to do? We have not seen services. Where I come from, there is a market called Matinyani and another one called Kabati. If you see the kind of shoddy job that is being done, you will cry. I urge the Senate to avoid trying to tax Kenyans and force the Government to borrow to fund projects in the county governments when we are not getting services and value for money. I am trying to urge this House to reject these Senate amendments because they are not relevant. I will not support it and I am sure most of the Members in this National Assembly will oppose them. I also urge that we debate a bit and you put the Question, so that we conclude this debate."
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