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    "id": 802448,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/802448/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Public hearings have been carried out and questions have been raised on the public participation exercise since 2012. It is the commitment of the BAC to continue with this practice and ensure that every of our 47 counties is visited by the end of the life of this 12th Parliament. The selected 12 counties were from a sampling framework which we adopted as a committee with various variables, namely, geographical location and our geographical dispersion as a country, marginalisation, the Big Four Agenda, urbanisation and current issues on development. Of course, the sampling method we used is not discretionary, but it worked towards equity at the end of it. That is why I have committed that by the end of this current Parliament, we will have visited all the 47 counties. The timing of our public hearings is also likely to change if we amend the Public Finance Management Act 2012 and allow the activity to take place in the period between September and November every year. This will enhance the number of counties that we cover each year. More importantly, we need to appreciate that this exercise is geared towards the national Budget and not the county budgets. In the 12 counties that we visited, a lot of issues relating to county budgets were raised."
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