{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153943","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153941","results":[{"id":1557612,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557612/?format=json","text_counter":320,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Question put and agreed to)"},{"id":1557613,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557613/?format=json","text_counter":321,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Next Order."},{"id":1557614,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557614/?format=json","text_counter":322,"type":"heading","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"BILL"},{"id":1557615,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557615/?format=json","text_counter":323,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1557616,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557616/?format=json","text_counter":324,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Second Reading"},{"id":1557617,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557617/?format=json","text_counter":325,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"THE COUNTY GOVERNMENTS ADDITIONAL ALLOCATIONS BILL (Senate Bill No.1 of 2025)"},{"id":1557618,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557618/?format=json","text_counter":326,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Chairman, Budget and Appropriations Committee."},{"id":1557619,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557619/?format=json","text_counter":327,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Alego Usonga, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Samuel Atandi","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill (Senate Bill No.1 of 2025), be now read a Second Time. Additional allocations to counties are provided for under Article 202(2) of the Constitution, which stipulates that: “County governments may be given additional allocations from the national Government’s share of the revenue, either conditionally or unconditionally”. Additionally, Article 190 of the Constitution allows for legislative measures to provide further support to counties to enable them to perform their work effectively. This Bill comes to this House in concurrence with the Senate, pursuant to Article 110(4) of the Constitution. We passed a similar Bill in this House on 14th March 2025, and it was forwarded to the Senate. The Senate has not yet progressed with it. This Bill from the Senate varies the amounts that we forwarded with the Bill to the Senate, by about Ksh25.53 billion. That variation by Senate was done because we were responding to the reductions which happened in the Supplementary Estimates II for the 2024/25 Financial Year which we passed. In those estimates, we drastically reduced the estimates in the Bill. This Bill now increases the allocations by about Ksh25.5 billion, making the total allocation in this Bill to Ksh50.04 billion. This variation has received concurrence from National Treasury that has affirmed that, indeed, they will provide for the variation. The variations in this Bill is largely supported from loans and grants from development partners. The development partners have also confirmed that the funds we are providing for in the Bill are ready and once the Bill is passed, the funds will be available to counties to perform their functions. In this Bill, Ksh8.4 billion from the national Government share of revenue will be provided by the National Treasury, while Ksh42 billion is from development partners in the form of loans and grants. I need to highlight that out of the Ksh8.4 billion which will come from the national share of revenue, Ksh1.75 billion is money which is earmarked to county governments to sort out their outstanding salary arrears for health workers. When health workers were on strike, a return-to-work formulae was signed, and it allocated the Ksh1.75 billion to countries to sort out that arrangement. The other issue which is important in this Bill is that we are providing for about Ksh2.9 billion to help counties in what we call County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPs). Counties have done so well in developing these industrial parks which are very important because they are going to be the centres of value addition for local products that are being done in counties. Providing for this allocation is going to fast-track this line of development. Remember, this is one of the key items in the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Model we are implementing as a broad-based Government. The other important item in the Bill has to do with about Ksh42 billion which has been provided for by donors in the form of grants and loans. This allocation is going to be spent in the areas of health, agriculture, water, and sanitation. These programmes are very critical for our people at the grassroots. We need to facilitate our counties so that they are able to receive this money and develop these programmes. When we were doing public participation, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1557620,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557620/?format=json","text_counter":328,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Alego Usonga, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Samuel Atandi","speaker":null,"content":"governors appeared before us and told us that, indeed, they have done procurement and they are waiting for the funds to be sent to them so that these services can be provided for. The other issue has to do with Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Every county has health promoters whose money is also provided for here. The national Government pays Ksh2,500 directly to health promoters and counties are also supposed to do the same. Because we have not passed this Bill, the national Government has already played its part, but counties are lagging behind in arrears. You find that a health promoter has received money due from national Government, but they have even five months arrears. We need to provide for these workers who are important because they are the first contacts in the healthcare systems in our counties. They are the first contact that our people meet when they fall sick. Therefore, failure to pay their arrears means that we are undermining our health sector."},{"id":1557621,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557621/?format=json","text_counter":329,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Alego Usonga, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Samuel Atandi","speaker":null,"content":"I also want to add that in this Bill, we have removed the allocations under the Road Maintenance Fuel Fund (RMLF). I want to inform the Members that it is not here. What is holding us is a court case which we have agreed with the Council of Governors (CoG) that we are going to initiate conversations towards ensuring that this case is removed from court and the funds revert to the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA). In a nutshell, I would like to urge the Members that this Bill is important because some of the programmes that I have highlighted are the ones benefiting people at the grassroots. Therefore, we should not be seen as the House that is really trying to stop our people from enjoying resources, some of which are borrowed. The Ksh2 billion in this Bill are proceeds from loans and grants. These are resources that will not come from our exchequer. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I would like to urge Members to support this Bill and allow it to progress so that our counties can function. I would like to call upon the Leader of the Minority Party to second."}]}