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    "id": 893910,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/893910/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, as we develop this Bill, let us put some emphasis on access to information and its provision. The reason why we moved from the regime of budget to programme-based budgeting was specifically for that so, that one does not just tell us that this is the budget for this Ministry or docket in the county. However, you are telling us that this budget in Machakos County in Katangi Ward is for this project. Let us give mwananchi that information and our work will be much easier. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. said that we do not have capacity to measure the value of the project. However, we are not even at a place of value. There are fake projects that are being budgeted for year after year that are not on the ground. Who is better placed to tell you about value? Is it the engineer or mwananchi whose car is hitting potholes every day? It is not about telling me the depth of the tarmac but you are telling me it is not there at all and you have allocated money to it. We, therefore, need to take our oversight fund very seriously. We are still insisting that the unit of distribution must be the ward. Subsidiarity means the smallest unit possible in devolution which is the ward. It cannot be that Nairobi City County with 85 wards is being given the same budget to oversight with Isiolo County with 10 wards. Yes, we are equal in voting here but even if we were to do the same things, it will not cost the same to look at 85 wards versus 30 or 40. It is a matter of equity, not equality. I am seeing that my time is going but let me just move on. In the closing parts of this Bill in Part II, Clause 16(2), Sen. Olekina has spoken about oversight of the county revenue allocation by the national Government and the county. I think this should inform what we are talking about with respect to our intentions to play a direct oversight role. It says”-"
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