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    "content": "also come in. This complicates issues and it needs to be looked into, so that where a resource is tried within a particular county, it can be used effectively for that county. I am happy that we have finally consolidated the formula that was given by the CRA; we need to bring everything together in a meaningful way and look at the variances between what was proposed within the counties and also make provisions within the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, to improve what was given to those specific counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I finish, the future for this country is very bright, but it will depend on what we do with the money that is allocated, Kshs259 billion and Kshs21 billion as conditional allocation to counties is not little money. I was looking at a brief report on a visit that was done to Mandera and Garissa counties and documentation of the changes that have taken place. For the first time, there are women who are able to give birth in a hospital because that hospital has been brought closer to them. There is a Kenyan out there who is just looking forward to having these funds used. Let the funds never be used in vain. Let this money be put where it should. I urge the Senate, even as we continue with our fight for oversight, that we do not relent because if we leave this process purely to county assemblies, it will be very difficult. I have always said on this Floor that I admire Kenyans because they are part of that process that came up with a Constitution that was very rigid. In their wisdom, they created a Senate that would oversight the counties. We cannot abandon that responsibility. We will have to find ways and means and keep pushing at it. I remember that some of the Members that I was talking to in the afternoon, said that at any public"
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