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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": "So, these are specifically tailored towards some of those areas. Therefore, there is no case in point to bring out a county as having been erroneously allocated money which is not supposed to be true here. The recent matters that you heard, there is serious planting in parts of Meru County. It was not in a position to respond to many of those issues. Meru County has not been a serious subject to funding but, unfortunately, this time round, it was. Secondly, there was no money in the county as it is in all other counties. Therefore, because some of this money is targeted to emergency response services and that money was not there, many people in Meru died. Counties are suffering because they do not have that money as yet. They have programmes laid out in the Kenya County Integrated Development Programs (KCIDPs) and rolled out into annual progarmmes which have not been supported. So, the more we keep this money with us or the more the money is kept in the Exchequer before it is released, the longer it takes for those counties to respond and, therefore, the more serious danger it causes. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is something called matching grants which are given by the national Government in collaboration with the donor or the supporting agency that supports specific activities. If this allocation went with an error, there would still have been issues and it would have been discovered at that point in time because the matching grants calculated according to the agreed formula would not have yielded the expectations of this particular programme. The specificity of this programme is important and I do not need to belabor on that point any more. I would like to highlight one more point in terms of delays in funding in view of a declared effectiveness of a project. This project had an effective date. After the negotiation, then there was a set date for effectiveness. The longer we delay, the more we suffer as a country because we have a loan that is not operating and the money is not being utilized for the intended purpose. So, the money is costly to us because the bank will count on those dates, according to the bank, effectiveness dates has already been agreed upon; a disbursement formula has been agreed upon. It is upon the country to withdraw the money or not. The longer we take the more we pay and so it is important for us to correct that anomaly quickly so that the money moves to the counties for purposes of being expedited or being utilized for the intended purpose. I support this Motion and withdraw any form of doubt that Meru was considered erroneously. We need to look at the entire allocation from all the counties and look at what is the issue. I would like it to come out clearly that Meru was not the issue for discussion. We are not here to discuss how much Meru was allocated vis-a-vis others. Finally, it is important for us to fast-track this particular process so that we do not put the country into unnecessary cost besides being unable to move the activities at the county level. I support."
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