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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": "I am happy that we are also discussing this Bill, which is a product of consultation between the two levels of Government. The spirit of consultation is very important. We need to nurture it because this is public money. It belongs to all of us; it does not belong to an individual. So, I appreciate the idea of consultation, which produced this Bill. I am also happy that we have allocated conditional grants amounting to Kshs5.2 billion to the counties for emergencies. We need to have checks and balances to ensure this money is not squandered, especially given it is not going directly to development. It is going to recurrent expenditure. It is going into certain kitties that can easily be manipulated and expose the money for pocketing. We need to tackle some of these issues. I am happy that in this allocation, we have captured the issue of construction of county headquarters. I come from Bomet County, where we do not have a county headquarters. The Office of the Governor is supposed to be my CDF office. He grabbed and took it over. That is what he is using. I believe that out of the Kshs4 billion that has been allocated for construction of county headquarters, Bomet County will be given first priority to put up an office. The former older districts already had district headquarters but Bomet County was unlucky. It did not have a district headquarters. On the issue of misappropriation of funds, Bomet County was given Kshs61million for construction of offices but the money was squandered without a single office being constructed. That is why oversight is a critical part of disbursement of monies. We should not be disbursing monies without oversight. I am happy that we are also dealing with the issue of devolved staff. We have allocated Kshs5.196 billion to take care of them. In some counties, the staff members of the national Government who were devolved with the counties are being considered orphans. Whenever I go to my county, I see most of them being mistreated. In fact, some of them have filed court cases. Some of them have been denied salaries from the national Government. With this allocation, they will be taken care of. Nobody will mistreat or discriminate against them."
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