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"content": "Many times, we found out that those projects were specifically positioned in certain counties with no regards to any scientific evidence or framework of where to follow. In fact, the easiest way for them was to say that they want to pilot a particular project. You would realise that the piloting phase was always done in particular counties. There are counties which stood no chance, especially those that come from regions that were considered to be politically incorrect at the time. We sat down as a Committee and said that we have derelict our duty, we have checked out on the people that sent us to Parliament and that is why these things are happening. So, from around 2020 or 2021, we said that even additional allocation to county governments must pass through a particular framework. That is a basis upon which you have this County Governments Additional Allocations (No.2) Bill (Senate Bills No.8 of 2025). The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "It is a subset of County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA), but it carries any other additional resources that are going to our county governments and the justification is also provided therein. Therefore, one is able to read, understand and appreciate the amount and the reason a particular county is getting it and the other one is not getting it. Sen. Mungatana, who seconded this Bill, mentioned that if there is no mineral activity of note in your county, you do not expect to benefit from this year’s additional allocation of Kshs2.93 billion, which is for mineral rights. That money has accrued from 2016. I get surprised when I hear people say that this administration does not care about devolution. If those who were previously there cared for devolution, then why did money from the mineral rights stay in the coffers of the National Treasury from 2016 to date? Why is it that we are only saying, in this financial year, that what does not belong to the national Government should be sent to the counties? Additionally, we have many other funds that are listed. This is part of the 20 per cent share of the mineral royalties that is due to counties as per Section 183(5) of the Mining Act, Cap 306, which stipulates that 20 per cent of mineral royalties will be paid to the state shall accrue to the county government where the mining operations occur."
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"content": "It should be of interest to you, Sen. Mungatana and Sen. Okiya Omtatah. It should also interest Sen. Cherarkey because there is significant mining activity in his county. It is important that we put proper framework for that particular space. There is a lot of artisanal mining activities across the western belt. If you fly over Busia, Migori, Siaya and Kisumu counties, you will see some round holes with water filled inside and some young men running around there with sacks trying to shake them the whole day. They always say that they will eventually get some piece of gold. As leaders, we ought to be concerned and say we cannot allow our people to live like this 60 years after Independence."
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"content": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale does not mention this of late because he has conveniently forgotten. He is not here. Initially, in his good days, before certain things happened, which I am yet to know, he would remind us that the largest gold refinery ever built in the Republic of Kenya was in Ikolomani where he comes from. While that is being done, the same needs to be replicated across all our counties that have presence of minerals."
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"content": "The 20 per cent from the mineral rights is a significant amount of money. We can grow that sector and ensure that it earns the country a significant amount. Our country does not have a mature mining subsector because we lack a good amount of minerals. This is because we have not created a proper regulation of that environment to attract investment."
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"content": "Serious players in the mining sector will never come to a country like Kenya because of the difficulties that it takes. First, securing community rights is a problem. If they try to, Sen. Oketch Gicheru will show up with his sanguenyas and say, “that this land belongs to us. This man cannot mine until they do this.” Sen. Cherarkey will also come with his demands to the new investor."
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"content": "Our mining sector will not prosper until we get to a point of appreciating that no investor will come to our country when the laws do not protect them. We have to provide a clear path for them to recoup their investment. We must clean up the Mining Act and make it business friendly. We should make it possible to attract the big players in the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "mining sector globally. The minute they will know that this country is governed by the rule of law and that their rights, as an investors, are protected, they will invest here and provide employment opportunities. They will also provide resources to the county and the national governments. I was just speaking about that 20 per cent share of the mineral rights because it is part and parcel of what our counties are benefiting from. It is only a paltry Kshs2.9 billion. Like I mentioned, it is accrued amount for a significant number of years. If you want to know how much was paid as mineral royalties for the last many number of years, you just need to multiply that figure by five times. It will give you almost Kshs15 billion. I strongly believe that the country can earn upwards, perhaps even 10 times of that particular figure. That is a challenge that we must pose to the new leadership at the helm of the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs. The Cabinet Secretary must give us a roadmap. You heard what Sen. Mungatana said about gypsum and how it is driving up the cost of cement. The minute we banned the local mining of gypsum, people had to import from countries as far as Tanzania. It is not that the raw material is not available in the country. The issue is that we cannot agree on how to run that particular trade. How long will it take the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs to make the decision? They can register those who have sites, sign up their forwarding contracts with where they are taking those minerals."
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"content": "If we continue to take the length of time that we are taking to make those decisions, no investor will invest in this particular sector. The Bill in total, distributes close to Kshs70 billion across our counties, which includes money in form of court fines. The Kshs2.95 billion is from court fines and mineral royalties. There is Kshs9.95 billion from the national Government share of the Second Schedule and Kshs5.9 billion from proceeds of loans and grants from development partners, which is the Third Schedule. All these things that are listed and you know them. There are quite a number of them. I have always questioned why these loans and grants take the form and shape that they do. There is even a proposal also on the Community Health Promoters (CHPs) of Kshs3.24 billion. There is Kshs454 million to five counties. I must register my disappointment. It was a very difficult task, I remember, here in 2016, to convince the House to build headquarters for five counties, Isiolo, Nyandarua, Tana River, Lamu and Tharaka Nithi. There was a debate in the House because people say we have needs also in our own county. Good reason prevailed and people agreed and said, given that these counties did not have district headquarters back in the day, they do not have even basic infrastructure to set up. Over the years we have continued to pay. It has taken inordinately long to complete that payment. I was disturbed that recently just two days after we had made the decision to add Nyandarua into the list of the counties that are benefiting under the affirmative action--- Remember there were 12 counties that we created that were getting less than Kshs6 billion. We said we needed to find a way of bringing them closer to the rest of the counties. We developed a list of 20 counties and built into the formula, the Fourth The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Generation Formula that is now available. It the second time that Nyandarua is benefiting from an affirmative action exercise. I wish Sen. Methu was here when I am speaking about this because I have a message for him individually as a leader and for the people of Nyandarua. That was not the first time they are benefiting from this Kshs454 million. When we had demonstrations recently, a whopping I think, 35 county governments vehicles, together with the same headquarters that we had given to them under affirmative action, was razed down by protesters. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you receive support from the rest of the country, that they appreciate that you have unique challenges. Then in the spirit of madness, that captures and is urged on by certain lost characters, clever by half-fools who think that by inciting young people to burn around their country, they pass a message of dissatisfaction, you burn the entire building together with 40 vehicles. That was really unfortunate. Yet, these are part of the resources that we are distributing. There is also money to County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPS). You remember there are counties that have not benefited equally. This is the 250 share contribution. I am not sure and the Vice-Chairperson is here of Finance and Budget Committee. I am not sure whether this Kshs4.5 billion now clears the list of the remaining counties. You remember last financial year, I think about 17 counties benefited. It is my hope and assumption that now we will complete that business. This is because there are counties where the contractor has done significant amount of work, but they cannot move beyond where they have reached, because the counties have exhausted their counterpart funding. Remember the county governments were to contribute Kshs250 million and the national Government was to give another Kshs450 million. This is money to those remaining 18 counties, including Kericho. There is also funds that are being allocated and these are the various programmes. Sen. Maanzo and my colleagues, we have to do something about these various donors funded projects in our county. We need to keep an eye, Sen. Omtatah. Now in this list, there are about 10 different programmes that are being implemented by donor agencies in our counties, some by grants and loans. They come with unique propositions; you can only use these funds to do particular programmes. If we do not keep a keen eye, then you will get to a point where you will lose track of the number of programmes that are being run in your own county and that fund will be misused. When the first one slum upgrading programme started, many county governments went to the nearest slum and gave contractors who did not know how to lay a centimeter of tarmac. Since they had finally been granted an opportunity to lay tarmac in the name of upgrading a slum, some mixed dust with black waste oil and burnt it on the road and said that there was a new tarmac road that has been built. Within a few months of the long rains, for those of us that come from areas where there are long rains, the whole supposedly “tarmac” had been washed away. This is because of programmes that are conceptualized here in Nairobi by people in National Treasury, people who sit in high offices in the form of donors. They want to work directly with our counties with very little involvement in the Senate. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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