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    "id": 568969,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
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    "content": "The other issue that I would like to mention is on absorption. It is very painful when I see my county and other counties get money from the National Treasury and yet the rate of absorption is quite low. When we talk about developing this country at a growth rate of say 5 per cent, it is based on proper and timely usage of finances. For example, if you are going to earn Kshs100,000 from a building which you are constructing for rentals, then you do not use the money to build that house, at the end of the year you will not have received that income. If both the national and county governments do not use the budget they are given timely especially for development, the predictions of economic growth in the country will remain just pipe dreams. It is not going to happen. We will keep on rolling over proposed projects to the next years. I ask counties to improve on absorption. The other thing is prioritization. Let us make sure that what we have as the national vision, the Vision 2030, the national Government and the county government officials should sit together and rationalize so that they harmonize what is happening at the county and what is happening at the national level. It is very bad that the county government is taking a different route while the national Government is taking another. We are not sitting down to develop this country. Each level of government is doing its own thing. There is a lot that needs to be done between the two levels of governments. Hon. Deputy Speaker, painfully, because of our timelines and the other provisions that we must pass, I support."
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