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    "id": 767732,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "id": 2749,
        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "I support this Bill and I think we should pass it with necessary speed on the grounds that the counties are cash struck. By the time we were rejecting this Bill, we were going for elections and there was the general feeling in the 11th Parliament that some of these monies were going to be used for electioneering purposes. Now that we are all beginning afresh, the counties are starting afresh, and then we believe that these monies should go for the purposes they were meant for. I want to go further and say that, the Senate should not in any way hide behind allocation of resources without having proper oversight over the counties. In the 11th Parliament, one of the areas we were talking about was the issue of corruption where monies allocated properly from this House does not end up with our people at the grassroots. This is basically defeating the sole purpose of devolution. For that reason, we feel that whatever is given in terms of grant, whether it is conditional or unconditional grant must be fully accounted for. The Auditor-General must take proper cognisance that, that is public money that must be fully accounted for by our counties. One of the honourable Members who spoke before me talked about inequity. I think devolution in itself is one way of curing inequity where today almost all the counties across this Republic receive close to between Kshs 5 and Kshs 11 billion. That hitherto was not there. For that reason, as Members of this House, instead of appearing politically-correct, we should oversee that the monies allocated reaches our people in the villages and towns."
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