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    "id": 994317,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I would like to congratulate my Senator and the Senate Deputy Majority Leader, Sen. Dullo for bringing these two very key issues to the Senate. I will not add much on the issue of the budgetary allocation. However, I would like to urge the Committee that will be assigned to look into this matter to not only anaylse the budget from the national Government, but also look at county budgets have allocated to the COVID-19 response. I am a Member of the ad hoc Senate Committee on COVID-19. In this Committee, we have been looking at our scheme to make sure that there is transparency in the way the COVID-19 funds are used both at national and county levels. In the last check, we were told by CoG that counties have not received funds from the national Government. My Chairperson is here and, probably, he will elaborate on that. There are substantial amounts of money that the county assemblies have also allocated to the COVID-19 response. This is where we need to make sure that, we not only look at the transparency issues, but also push through our Committee for the Kshs5 billion to trickle down. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, moving on to the issue of smuggling of marijuana from Ethiopia into our counties, Isiolo has now become some sort of conduit through which this is coming. We are wondering why it is coming all the way from Marsabit and along the routes where there are so many roadblocks. It is not being intercepted and it is being consumed in Central Kenya, particularly Murang’a County. The issue of drug menace, not just in our country, but especially in Isiolo is becoming a big concern to us. This is how a few years ago, people in Mombasa and the Coastal Belt started relatively with less lethal drugs and moved on to injecting themselves hard drugs. In 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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