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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee and its Chairman. They have done a good job. I will only confine myself to the process because it is important. I have always said in this House that when we do the Division of Revenue Bill as we had done earlier… Now we are dealing with the national Government account and yet we do not know the needs of the county governments. So, we tend to go with the 15 per cent and the Commission on Revenue Allocation’s recommendations. There is need to have that information about county needs on top of what is provided for legally. The sector hearings that was done found out that there are many areas of need in county governments. For example, they found that there are many hospitals in Nairobi that do not operate. They found that equipment in a hospital in Pokot is not being used because they have no electricity. They also found that there are many dilapidated roads and proceeded to provide funds for them. These are county governments’ functions. We have just done division of revenue but we are taking over these functions and providing money for them. It indicates that it was The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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