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    "id": 952793,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the national Government conditional grant is slightly less than Kshs10 billion. Why should the national Government give conditional grants to polytechnics when that is directly a county function? I can understand the roads one, because the Roads Levy is levied separate from other taxes. Therefore, it is beneficial to our counties; that over and above the division of revenue processes, we should be able to get this money. Therefore, it is indeed important that we first streamline conditional grants so that they become truly conditional grants. This is because county village polytechnics have already been constructed. If the conditional grants were going to deal with village polytechnics, then show us what the national Government policy that these conditional grants are following? Is it the national Government position then, that many counties are unable to build village polytechnics? Consequently, are they giving a conditional grant over a determined period of time, say five years, to increase the number of village polytechnics from one in every county to about ten? Will they, thereafter, allow those counties to run those facilities and then give them money, like any other institutions, through the county allocation of revenue as an equitable share? Thirdly, the donor funds, which is about Kshs50 billion, that none of us here can tell what the objective criteria of sending Kshs300 million to Elgeyo Marakwet and maybe Kshs1 billion to the next county – maybe West Pokot – I have not checked the exact figures of West Pokot County. If we are not careful, because Kshs50 billion is not a small amount of money, it will happen that--- Most of these monies are negotiated through line Ministries. Some individuals will then take advantage of the connections they have in line Ministries; go and negotiate donor money for their counties, constituencies, wards or their places, and then come back to this House to rubberstamp it. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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