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    "id": 666333,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/666333/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Levy for the repair and maintenance of county roads as set out under column (g) of the Second Schedule. Basically, those are the highlights. The other Schedule gives the amount given to each county. If I pick Garissa County, it is receiving Kshs5.7 billion. The county with the highest allocation is Nairobi which will receive Kshs12 billion; Nakuru County - Kshs8 billion and Turkana County - Kshs10.5 billion. I am sure that in the last subsequent financial years, Turkana County must have received close to Kshs50 billion. The moral question that this country must ask is: Has the Kshs50 billion changed the lives of the people of Turkana County which is marginalised? This is a county with deficiency in food security and highest health mortality rates. The new Constitution has given Parliament powers, role and function of Budget making. Parliament shall neither be a conveyor belt nor a rubberstamp. Parliament must ask the people of Kenya if they are getting value for the billions of shillings that we send to the counties. Hon. Speaker, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade has arrived. He must have been busy. At least, he has arrived. Kenyans asked to devolve resources from the centre. We have cried for many years. We said that we wanted to devolve resources and power to the people. As we allocate huge sums of money to counties, it is our moral obligation, as leaders of this country, to account for each and every penny that the Senate and the National Assembly appropriate on behalf of the people of Kenya. We must see how the Kshs10 billion that we sent to Turkana County has transformed that county. Those of us who live in Nairobi must see what Governor Kidero and his government are doing with the Kshs12 billion that has been given to them. The Kshs5.7 billion that goes to Garissa County and all the 47 counties must be accounted for. I have said a number of times that I do not want to become a governor but I am sure that there are many of my colleagues here who want to vie for gubernatorial positions in the next election. They include my good friend, the Minority Whip, Hon. Mwadeghu. He is preparing himself. Parliament, and by extension the county assemblies cannot be rubberstamps. I would like to talk to the county assemblies. They have an oversight role to ensure that all the money that goes to---"
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