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    "id": 983294,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/983294/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "However, for the county governments, reading Article 219 of the Constitution, once both Houses appropriate money to county governments, you have no choice but to deliver those resources. So, before we get to the Third Reading, I want the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to go into the lobbying room with his friend, Hon. John Mbadi, and talk to the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the National Treasury. We must have an amendment to reduce the Kshs316.5 billion that has been allocated to the county governments. You cannot give people something you do not have. Let us be very frank. Even the NG- CDF might have issues. So, let us agree that before we get to the Third Reading, you will move an amendment. Notwithstanding that you want to become the next Governor of Kiambu County and your friend, Hon. John Mbadi, wants to be the next Governor of Homa Bay County, amongst many other Members who want to become governors, let us face the reality - you are giving somebody money that you will not raise. Hon. Speaker, the choice is for this House to make. If we say it is Kshs316.5 billion for the county governments, it must be Kshs316.5 billion. We can cut the budgetary allocations for Parliament, the national Government, and the Judiciary through a Supplementary Estimate. We can bring as many Supplementary Estimates as provided for in law, but we cannot touch the money that will have been allocated to county governments."
}