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    "id": 605818,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Musila",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 94,
        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I support this Bill on the County Allocation of Revenue. When the Chairperson of the relevant Committee, Sen. Billow, was moving this Bill he gave an example of Kitui County and said it has been allocated Kshs7.2 billion. I want to confirm that since this world was created this amount of money or even any amount near that figure has never been seen in Kitui County. Therefore, I applaud devolution because it is only through devolution that we can see resources devolved by the national Government. Madam Temporary Speaker, you know as I know that in the past, the Government for the last 50 years of our Independence has been marginalizing certain counties. This is the only opportunity that we have that our counties can get funds to develop. Even when you look at the allocations at Schedule III, you can see the conditional allocations, the big figures are going to those counties that have been favoured in the past. Even this favouratism is still continuing using the 85 per cent funds that remained in the national Government. If, for example, you look at the funds that have been allocated to the National Youth Service (NYS) which will be conducting projects in counties, they have been given over Kshs200 billion. This money is meant to develop counties. However, it will be disbursed from Nairobi. The counties to benefit from these funds will be chosen from Nairobi. We, as the Senate, this is the attempt we made to say that part of this money be sent to the counties so that those projects that are supposed to be implemented in the counties are implemented by the county governments. However, this proposal was rejected. Therefore, already I am hearing that certain counties have been earmarked using these funds so that the NYS can justify having spend the money in counties and yet it is"
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