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    "id": 957224,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/957224/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13179,
        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
        "slug": "farhiya-ali-haji"
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    "content": "During the public hearings, Makueni County Assembly is one of the county assemblies that gave their submission. In their submission, they said that from the last Financial Year they have lost about Kshs43 million. If the county generally lost money because of lack of fiscal responsibility, the punishment should not be to the county assembly but the executive. So, the funds that go to the county assembly should not have been reduced. This is because we always talk about inflation and other factors that affect expenditure, and yet we now give them less money for a mistake that is not theirs. Let me also comment a little bit about overestimation of own source revenue. That is also a problem in the national Government. It is my take that, that process is being used to inflate the budget, so that there is space to steal. As a result of all that, we have pending bills, and no money to pay. All these issues are related. There is another issue that the Senators have dispensed with, but I just want them to visualise. For example, we said that we consider 25 per cent of the Kshs316 billion budget should go to agriculture and health in counties. That is a small amount of Kshs79 billion, yet the total budget for this country is Kshs750 billion. Even the total amount allocated to counties is not even half of the amount of money that we should have allocated for health and agriculture, if we were to follow the international agreements."
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