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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I also support the adjournment Motion, but suggest the following: That this formula has been very divisive, to say the least. Looking at the amendments casually, they are equally divisive. We will end up in a state of these amendments also being dead on arrival. We need to do what we did in the last Parliament. Sen. Orengo, Sen. Cheruiyot, Sen. Murkomen and others were here. It took us three working days as a whole Senate in Naivasha to push and pull together with the entire Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), for us to come up with the formula that we brought to this House and everybody passed it. It will be unlikely that even if we adjourn for two or three weeks, and we look at these amendments--- I remember the words the distinguished Senator for Mombasa came to tell me here that the way we are going we will have 47 formulas on the Floor. Everybody will come with a formula. Unscientific as it may be, everybody wants something. This is a House of equity and equality; equality of the vote. Lamu carries one vote; Nairobi City County, one vote. Equity because we must reach a level that makes every single corner of this country comfortable in the process of allocating money. I urge that the leadership of this House - my distinguished colleagues from West Pokot and Siaya - take leadership. When the country loosens out of this closure, take this 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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