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    "id": 764550,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Actually it is Sitswila Amos Wako in that order. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to support the submission by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. by offering more legal arguments. Article 202 of the Constitution states that: “(1) Revenue raised nationally shall be shared equitably among the national and county governments. (2) County governments may be given additional allocations from the national government’s share of the revenue, either conditionally or unconditionally.” I believe that Clause 4 of the Bill is the one that implements Article 202(1). The schedule we are dealing with now on conditional grants implements Article 202(2). In other words, equitable revenue sharing and conditional grants are treated separately under the Constitution and that is in the main Act. Section 4 deals with Article 202(1) and Section 5 of the Act deals with Article 202(2). I am surprised that mistakes happened on issues dealing with conditional revenue. This is the first time that these type of mathematical mistakes and errors have occurred in such important documents that emanate from the Treasury. I think this is the first time this is happening since Independence because I have never seen it happen and I hope it will never happen again. But here, it happened only on issues relating to conditional grants which come under Article 202 (2) of the Constitution. Therefore, that is what should have been affected. It should not have affected the equitable sharing of revenue which comes under Article 202 (1). That is why I support Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. in that, that should not have been used as an excuse to delay the remittance of funds to counties in the sharing of the equitable revenue. Therefore, very much as we support this and we move forward, I would really ask the Treasury, even before this amendment becomes law, to immediately remit the funds to county governments so that they can start doing their work. Thank you."
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