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    "id": 565994,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill, but I have some comments that I would like to make. Resource use efficiency in the counties has not been high by the assessments done by the Office of the Controller of Budget. When absorptive capacity issues are being raised about counties, we ought to understand the resource flow timetables. We need to know when the resources arrived at the disposal of the counties to understand whether, indeed, it is a capacity issue or there are other restrictions in the way resources are flowing. Secondly, it is my strong belief that although we have calls that resources need to get down to the grassroots, if I was a governor, I would never run a county efficiently if I have to equalise flows down to the grassroots. This is because it depends on the priorities that you have. You can get key priorities in one corner of the county and look at a long period of time to see if there is a balance or no balance. You cannot do that with every Budget otherwise, it becomes an arithmetic question. It cannot be a development strategy. It will be a failing strategy. There must be an element in which we allow people in the county to control how these resources are used. We should kick out people who are unable to push resources to priority areas that make a difference in their lives and not simply seek equalisation. If we want to equalise, we should go to income transfer arrangement and simply equalise income transfers. These are development funds which must depend on strategies and priorities. As I conclude on this point, there must be a point at which we can see the resources that are coming out of the counties. I would like to see a conditional grant that depends on the amount of resources, in some proportion, that are raised locally by the county. That will be an 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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