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    "id": 852269,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "will benefit 11 counties, and some where gazetted water towers are do not have resources. That is the sought of inquiry that the Committee on Finance and Budget ought to make, where Senators can understand. Why are we giving people money for agriculture? What are they supposed to do with forests? What is it that the Senate and the Senators can participate in? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am supporting this with a lot of restraint. I cannot explain to anybody why I have stood up today to support, except that there is more money to counties. There is the Kenya Devolution Support Programme where counties are supposed to receive money. While the budget talks about Kshs4 billion in the division of revenue, The County Allocation Revenue Act (CARA) talks about Kshs2.1 billion. What happens to the Kshs1.9 billion? Where is it? Who is keeping it and why are they keeping it? Thirteen counties have been given money as part of the Kenya Devolution Support Programme, and we do not know why they qualified and the rest did not. What is it that we can do, as the Senate, to expedite the release of money to the rest of the other counties? That information is important. Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, there was a Statement that was to be raised today on medical equipment, where this Senate has allowed the national Government by voting to deduct Kshs200 million per year in advance from every county irrespective of size. Therefore, Lamu County is paying Kshs200 million, like Makueni County, Nairobi City County, and Turkana County. We cannot tell anybody in this country why we have allowed that to happen. That is the difficulty that I have. I read a book that was produced by the World Bank called “Devolution Without Disruption.” It was done before the advent of devolution. One of the things they anticipated, and has happened, is that the conditional grants would claw back on the functions of counties."
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