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    "id": 886218,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/886218/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "The people who do not agree with this thought hold the view that we are becoming too descriptive in our legislation to a point that we are almost tying the hand of the Governor and turning him into a robot sort of such that they are only presented with a plate of oranges and told that you can only drop one here and the other there and that kind of a thing. The argument is that the people that are charged with the responsibility of managing the resources at the county government should be given enough room for manoeuvre in terms of decision-making. There is good justification for that. There are many signature projects in the counties. If a county has to build a fantastic hospital or set up an industry, the budget has to be slightly more than the regular allocations. It will be like a one-size-fits-all approach where you take a budget meant for development and divide it by the number of wards. For example, if you have Kshs300 million for a financial year and you have 30 wards, each ward will be assured of Kshs10 million for development. In my opinion, this will be taken care of by provisions in Part III of this particular Bill where it is provided in Clause 5(3) as follows:-"
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