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    "id": 565971,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguchy",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will start off with Schedule 4 and I just want to understand it. I do not know whether the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee understood Schedule 4 because if you look at it, you will realise that the Recurrent Expenditures of the county assemblies vary a lot. They are not proportional to the amount that is allocated to those counties. However, the Executive Recurrent Expenditure is almost the same across the board. That to me is worrying. I wanted the Senate to help us. We are going to pass this but the Senate needs to help us and the country in insisting that the counties should look at the Constitution very clearly and know their functions.The core function of the counties in this country is health. If you visit most counties, you will find that the health docket is in a sorry state. The other major functions of the counties are agriculture, water, trade, Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) and youth polytechnics.When it comes to roads, the differences are not very clear. The other area that the Senate can help this country is on local revenue because it is never clear how much revenue is collected locally. This is not very clear even in my own County of Kakamega. It is not clear whether when they do their budgeting, this revenue comes in the budget or not or the county is just depending on the allocation from the national Government."
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