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    "id": 603110,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first, I want to thank the Members who have supported the Motion and also to respond to one or two issues. One is the issue raised by Sen. Ndiema which I very much appreciate. However, my position away from this particular ad hoc Committee – and by the way it is called an ad hoc Committee and not a Select Committee – but nonetheless, there are some agenda which come to the House which require very intense and short term investigation. Whenever we have this kind of thing, it is always better to have an ad hoc Committee to look into it because the regular committees normally have a lot of regular business. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also wish to assure Sen. Ndiema that in the budget of Parliament, there is a reserve for a limited number of this kind of ad hoc committees. Therefore, we are not at all eating into the budget of the Committee on Devolved Government. As Sen. Obure said, this Committee has actually gone round not to every county, but to selected ones that we really sampled and the number of observations we made, one of the ones I would like to tell the House is that we realised – although it was not the agenda which was taking us there – that we seem to be slowly creating marginalization in counties which were originally marginalized and they still continue being marginalized and others which are coming on board now, because of the formula we have for allocation. We realised that there were some counties which had a problem of headquarters. However, since they had a huge budget, they were able to commit Kshs1 billion and build their county headquarters. There are some counties, like Lamu and others which were originally marginalized, but the money they get is just enough to run their government. They cannot build extra roads. Therefore, we must give counties enough money to run their governments and for development. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few words, I beg to move. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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