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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Ad-Hoc Select Committee on County Headquarters laid on the Table of the House of the Senate on Thursday, 3rd December, 2015. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, many of the problems counties are facing on headquarters were discussed during the formation of this Committee. Therefore, I will not go into that. It will suffice to say that the Committee was formed and we looked into the headquarters of all the 47 counties. We talked to the stakeholders and visited many of them. We also talked with Government agencies like the Ministry of Works, Transition Authority (TA), Committee on Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) and many others. We eventually came up with a report. The gist of it was that we recommended 11 counties to be supported. We classified all the counties. We have Class A which need a lot of support, Class B, which needed little support and Class C who did not have a problem. We also classified Class AA which really needed support immediately which included Nyandarua, Isiolo, Tharaka-Nithi, Lamu and Tana River counties. We recommended that they be given conditional grant of Kshs800 million. I am glad to mention that the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), who were among the big public bodies we consulted, bought into our draft report and have factored in the Kshs800million per each of those counties. It is, therefore, very important for this report to be approved by the House because the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Treasury has agreed in principle to support it. The Government had seen the need to support some of the counties and set aside a huge amount of money for that purpose. However, the CIC headed by Mr. Nyachae said that it was unconstitutional and that is why it was not implemented. We now hope that we can move forward. I beg to move and ask Sen. (Prof.) Kinidki to second."
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