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    "id": 935034,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there was no need of devolving Recurrent Expenditure and copying the national Government to county governments; from the office of the President to the office of the governor and from the National Treasury to the County Treasury. We devolved Recurrent Expenditure. In fact, currently, 85 per cent of the funds taken to the counties, on average, are Recurrent Expenditure. There is nothing allocated to Development Expenditure. So, if we are not careful, this Equalisation Fund will be used to fund Recurrent Expenditure. There was a time Kshs1.2 billion was used to hire choppers to fly cabinet secretaries from one corner of the country to another because there was no clear structure in place. So, I urge this House to support the Equalisation Fund Bill and ensure there is a proper structure on it to be used. The country should benefit from the Fund which was set up in good faith by the framers of the Constitution."
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