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    "id": 887052,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana Central. ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "pocket of the national Government. We are blaming county governments that they are not doing anything and yet, their money is still here. We need to see to it that this money is taken a bit early so that when calamity strikes, it can be used so that we do not blame county governments all the time. This is because some of them are saying that they do not have the money. This is true because the money is still here with us. As the Chairman has said, we need to pass this Bill quickly so that counties can get money. I agree. On urban support programme, I agree that we need to urbanise our villages. We need to see urbanization in our counties so that we can see the changes that have been brought by devolution. That can tell us how devolution is good. When you see a village getting urbanised and a village with running water, tarmac roads, telephone facilities and electricity, surely, we can say that we are enjoying the fruits of devolution. I support this programme. However, we need to see this programme being implemented in major towns so that people can see the difference now that we have devolution in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the observation that the Chairman made about conditional allocations, surely, as one of the Members said, we need county assemblies to see how those grants are being used or utilized by our counties. As we allocate this money to the national Government and county governments, we need to see value for it. Are the services that we give to our people equal to the money that we are giving out or they are getting under-valued services? Two, we need to allocate money mostly to programmes that change the living standards of our people. Finally, we need to target programmes that improve the economy and also make our county more food secure. Like now, we are crying of hunger in some parts of this country and yet, we have plenty of food in other places. We need to allocate a lot of money to those programmes so that they can make our country food secure. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support. Thank you."
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