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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "This week. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we want to know why the county roads are still with the national Government. If those county roads are transferred the way we did when we did the transfers of all those functions, the entire RMLF should go to the county governments and not 15 per cent. Instead of them getting Kshs30 billion, they are getting Kshs3.3 billion. This is a matter that this House needs to stand up and be counted so that the counties can get their rights. Those are the specifics. Details are also available in the Bill. It describes each of those conditional allocations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the last one is the Third Schedule. It looks at the conditional allocations to county governments from loans and grants from development partners. What is happening is that some of the development partners are going round the counties inspecting facilities. If they like your health facility, they want to fund it. We have ongoing projects which were started before the county governments came to specific institutions and programmes. There is a lot of detail in the Bill on all those programmes. In fact, there are even more programmes and institutions in the Bill. Last year on the Third Schedule, we had Kshs13 billion from donors in grants and loans while this year the total is Kshs10 billion. Out of this Kshs10 billion, the World Bank loan to supplement financing of county health facilities is Kshs508 million. The specific counties which are benefiting are listed here. These are Baringo, Elgeyo- Marakwet and so on and so forth. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, these are conditional allocations. It will be transferred directly to the county revenue fund which means that they have to budget for them. They will get that money if they meet the agreed conditions. Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) is providing Kshs844,710,000 to literally all the counties to support health facilities. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are others and the total is Kshs9.3 billion. Of course, the single largest amount is allocated to Nairobi County. I can see that the Senator for Nairobi County is in today. His county is the biggest beneficiary of these loans. Out of Kshs9.3 billion, it will Kshs6.2 billion. These are conditional allocations that will not be transferred to the county government directly. The national Government will provide for it in their estimates and they will spend it on behalf of the county governments. The details of how they will spend this amount are captured in agreements."
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