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    "id": 975413,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Departmental Committees on specific MDAs as attached to this Report in Schedules 2 and 3. The compendium of these recommendations was attached to the Report and Members are free to see that in the Table Office. It has very many useful recommendations that we encourage the National Treasury to look into as they move towards the Estimates and make sure that, together with the MDAs, they are able to implement. (v) That, county governments be allocated Kshs369.868 billion for the 2020/2021 Financial Year distributed as follows: (a) The equitable share to county governments - Kshs316.5 billion. As I indicated, this is the same figure that we had in the 2019/2020 Financial Year. (b) Conditional allocations from the national Government’s equitable share of revenue as follows: (i) Leasing of medical equipment - Kshs6.205 billion; (ii) Compensation for user fees foregone - Kshs900 million; (iii)Level 5 hospitals - Kshs4.326 billion; (iv) Supplement for construction of county headquarters for the five counties that were being helped - Kshs300 million; (v) Rehabilitation of village polytechnics - Kshs2 billion; (vi) Allocation from Fuel Levy Fund (15 per cent of collections) - Kshs9.433 billion. (vii) Allocation from loans and grants It is important for all Members to note that figure because this is way more than what Members are getting in their constituencies through KeRRA. The county governments will get Kshs9.433 billion towards rehabilitation of rural roads and, therefore, it is important for the rest of the country to appreciate that many of our rural roads are now devolved roads by the counties. Besides the sharable revenue that is going to the counties, part of which will also go to the rehabilitation of roads, they also have Kshs9.4 billion shillings from the Fuel Levy that should maintain roads. Therefore, there is no reason why our county governments should not rehabilitate many of the roads that have been messed up by the ongoing rains that started sometime last year. Further, there is an allocation for loans and grants of Kshs30.2 billion. Before the finalisation of the Division of Revenue Bill, the transfer of functions of the Nairobi County Government to the National government should be reflected in the allocations provided. We engaged the Cabinet Secretary on this question of Nairobi County. We appreciate that His Excellency and the national Government have taken over a number of functions of the County Government of Nairobi. However, it is not yet clear how monies will move from the Division of Revenue Bill to what will be appropriated to Nairobi County back to the national Government. We expressed that concern to the National Treasury and they committed that they are working on a framework on how that will work. But it is important that before the finalisation of the Division of Revenue Bill, those functions that were transferred are reflected in the allocations that will be provided to Nairobi County."
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