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    "id": 886219,
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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": "“In determining the criteria for allocation under subsection (2)(b), the county executive committee shall ensure that the allocation— (a) is not less than fifteen percent of the county government’s allocation for development expenditure as provided under section 107(2)(b) of the Public Finance Management Act; and (b) is complimentary to any other development efforts by the county government or any other agency.” I think this is a good figure to start with. When you do a piece of legislation, the obvious thing that you must ask yourself is the mischief that can come out of it. The obvious mischief that could come out of this is a governor deciding – because they must set aside a certain proportion of county funds to go to each ward in the county – to set aside a percentage that is so small and that will end up being of no much significance. Therefore, in my opinion, 15 per cent is a good percentage because a county government will remain with 85 per cent or even more of the money allocated to do development in all parts of the county. Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the reasons I agree with the people that are pushing this particular narrative is because county assemblies will get to feature. When they will be doing annual development plans that will be extracted from the County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs), just as per the dictates of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, they will ensure that they do not agree with the County Fiscal Strategy Papers that will be presented to them if they do not meet the dictates of this legislation. They will have to check and ensure that the projects that will be proposed for funding feature in each and every part of the county. At least it should be 15 per cent of the budget but the more, the better because I know of counties that have achieved this. On many occasions, people believe that Kericho, which is the county that I represent in this House, is rich and beautiful. However, the truth of the matter is that the lower part of the county is as arid as you can imagine a place like Wajir, Mandera or any other northern part of the country. When Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) from that region go to Kericho County Assembly, they argue about what those who represent wards that have multinational tea estates do; where water is not a problem, roads are tarmacked, and there are good schools."
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