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    "id": 867314,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/867314/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this Bill. I want to make a few remarks and say that I support the County Allocation of Revenue (Amendment) Bill 2018. There are certain things that we need to observe when we are allocating donor resources to counties because we are aware counties lack capacity to implement some of these projects. Going through this Bill, you find that we are allocating about Kshs37 billion to counties and these are funds either borrowed or donated by donors. We have a problem with our debt position right now as a country. I am worried that we are still giving counties a lot of resources from donors when we are not even certain that they have capacity to implement these programmes. If you look at the last page on this Bill, you will find that we are giving about Kshs11 billion as credit to counties from the World Bank Kenya Urban Support Project. This project appears humongous, but I think we need to understand what it is all about because these resources are too much. A county like Uasin Gishu is receiving Kshs360 million for the Kenya Urban Support Project and so are many others. We really have to be sure that counties have the capacity to implement donor projects."
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