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    "id": 887021,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/887021/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda,",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "The Commission on Revenue Allocation proposes Kshs10 billion on conditional grants. The first one is supposed to go to the urban areas and cities and the other KShs5 goes to setting up regional cancer centres. They propose Kshs335 billion while we propose Kshs310 billion. Out of the Kshs335 billion, if you remove the Kshs10 billion, then we will remain with Kshs325 billion. What is the Kshs10 billion for? The Kshs5 billion is for purposes of enhancing cities infrastructure and what they are doing. Already, there are grants here totaling to Kshs11 billion that go to cities and urban areas. So, why do we need to add Kshs5 billion yet, the Kshs11 billion I am talking about is supposed to bring out measurable results? If we are adding more money, we need to add in terms of the experience and how much has been generated and how much has gone into certain areas, particularly on issues of enhancing capacities of urban areas and cities. How much has gone into infrastructure? What has improved before we add another Kshs5 billion? The other Kshs5 billion they are talking about is for purposes of setting up regional cancer centres. There has been a big controversy in this country for the last four or three years in terms of monies spent on health. In this document, we are still using Kshs9 billion to repay for equipment that were leased. Over and above that, the Commission on Revenue Allocation still proposes we add another Kshs5 billion for setting up some of these things and yet, we have a bad experience. In my view, before we get into some of these things, and before the Senate looks at it, proper attention needs to be given on the money that is requested. The Kshs10 billion being asked for, in my view, does not make sense because there is no way we can be struggling with Kshs9 billion and the equipment are not being used in any meaningful sense and some are lying idle. I heard my county received theirs last week and yet, we have been repaying them for the last two years. Some of these things are not right."
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