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    "id": 756388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank the Senate Majority Leader for giving me this opportunity. I would like to thank fellow Senators for their useful contribution because of the importance of this particular Motion. I would also like to highlight a few issues having had the benefit of being in the previous Senate. The funding allocated to counties is not enough and we have to start fighting for it in the Division of Revenue Bill. We have to agree with the National Assembly that more funds be allocated to the county. Other than that, I would like governors to know that this is only funding from the national Government and we know that all of them raise their own revenues. We also expect them to account for the revenues which they generate to their county assemblies. The experience has been that because of the allocation from the national Government, governors have not been keen to generate their own revenues and account for them. So, we expect them to account to their county assemblies and improve the generation of revenue so that we have more funds to be used in provision of services to our people at the county level. We also need to work on Bills concerning roads which have not been enacted so that we get more funds from the Road Maintenance Levy Fund for the counties because we have not yet agreed on the percentages. These were just based on some proportions according to the functions which have been devolved but we need to have very clear percentages from fuel levy funds. With that, counties will receive their funds. As it has been said, we have water problems in drought-stricken areas and every time we report to the Executive, we are told that there are no funds. From now onwards, that excuse of not having funds will not be there. Thank you."
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