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    "content": "The county governments will participate in terms of the project reporting and so many other things. The fact that there is counterpart funding by the National Treasury, the actual project will be budgeted for and managed by the national Government. However, there will be full involvement of the county government in its management through the Project Steering Committees and the Project Implementation Unit. Those are the loans and the total is Kshs10,000,671,000. Those are the main parts of the Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have a memorandum that must be provided for in accordance with the Constitution. This is the memorandum which explains a lot of issues. I will not go into the details. However, a large part of it is to explain what those conditional allocations are and how provisions of Article 203 are taken care of. It also explains the role of the CRA because it is required to recommend. In this Bill, they are required to explain why the figures they proposed as government and the figures proposed by CRA are different. There has to be an explanation as a required by law. A memorandum has to be provided. That explanation is provided on page 72 on explanation No.11. The difference is between National Treasury’s proposal on revenue allocation among county governments and the one of CRA. The main difference is that CRA has recommended Kshs282 billion as equitable share, but National Treasury came up with Kshs258 billion. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the main differences was the county executive and assemblies salaries, gratuities and allowances. The establishment of county emergency funds that I explained earlier was not successful in the mediation. The explanation is provided in detail on point by point on all the other issues. The annexes then explain all those things which are in the Second Schedule; that is, the loans and the grants. For example, Annex 1 is the conditional allocation for free maternal healthcare. It explains who the Accounting Officer is. In this case, it is the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health. It also explains the responsibility of the national Government and the conditions for the maternity healthcare which are listed for accessing those funds. Then it talks about the Accounting Officer or the county government who is responsible. It explains the responsibility of the county government and the purpose of that money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this year, this Bill is very elaborate on that information specifically touching on the conditional allocations. It also sets out all the details and the parameters used for determining, for example, for maternity deliveries. The figures are provided. Therefore, I will not go into details because all of them are provided. There is additional information for the loans and grants which are not even within the conditional allocation. They are listed here because county governments play a role in them and they affect the county governments. They are provided for your information. For example, 2,000 projects from central Kenya are provided for. These will include rehabilitation of sub-district hospitals, the Kenya-Italy Debt for Development Programme (KIDDP), the rural road rehabilitation and so on. I want to urge Members to support this Bill because the timeline is very short. We want the county assemblies to approve their budgets by the end of this month. If we can"
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