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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. In seconding this Motion, I have a few comments to make. One, the Mover of the Motion has rightly pointed out that Article 217 of the Constitution requires the Senate of the Republic of Kenya to determine or come up with the formula or a basis to determine the allocation of revenue among the 47 counties every five years. Article 216 requires that before the Senate considers the basis, there is need for CRA to propose or recommend to them the formula. That recommendation went to the Senate on 30th April 2019. From that time to the time we started seeing drama in the Senate, the Senators deemed it fit to deal with this formula whereas they knew very well that the calendar of 2020/2021 would require this formula. If you look at the formula that the Senate has finally brought to this House, even after all these shenanigans you saw around, they have basically uplifted what the CRA had proposed with only one change, and brought to us. This is contrary to what Kenyans out there believe, that senate has brokered a serious and a major agreement. I am going to demonstrate shortly that what the Senate did was just to uplift, to copy paste the CRA formula and brought it to us. I say this because there were 10 parameters from the CRA formula. There are eight parameters from the final formula that has been introduced in this House. The first parameter was basic share of 20 per cent, the way it was in the CRA formula is the way Senate has brought it. The second one was the issue of health. Seventeen per cent in the CRA, 17 per cent in the Senate formula. The next one was agriculture, 10 per cent in the CRA and 10 per cent in the Senate formula. The next one is urban, five per cent in the CRA and five per cent in the Senate formula. The next one was poverty index, 14 per cent in the CRA and 14 per cent in the Senate formula. The other one was land area, eight per cent in the CRA and eight per cent in the Senate formula. The next one is population which CRA called other services but was basically using population demographics. That again has been uplifted at 18 per cent in the CRA and 18 per cent in the Senate formula. Senate has just removed fiscal prudence at two per cent and fiscal effort at two per cent to make four per cent which they have added to the roads which the CRA had at four per cent. They made it eight per cent as the formula and brought it here. There is nothing wrong with Senate agreeing entirely with the work of CRA but why did they have to take all this time? Why did they have to subject Kenyans to this kind of frustration when the only thing they did on that formula was to remove the fiscal effort and fiscal prudence by 2 per cent each and added it to roads? That could have been done in a record one day. Therefore we must tell the Senate they put Kenyans to panic for nothing and doing completely and absolutely zero work. What is this formula? What the Senate has done is to treat this formula in two stages. This formula is supposed to be applied in five financial years -2020/2021 all the way to 2024/2025. What we have done in 2020/2021 is suspending the formula without saying we are suspending it. What they have done is to bring the figures of the 2019/2020 Financial Year which was Kshs 316 billion. They have brought it to 2020/2021 and called it allocation ratio. They have then said, for this year, the additional funds will be zero times formula, meaning you are not adding anything, you are carrying forward the figures from 2019/2020. The question I want to ask is, why this Senate could not do it in one day? It is very simple, you just agree Homa Bay to get what they got, Tana River receives what they got and that would have been very easy, the country would have moved on. The counties would be having money today. To me, this is a clear demonstration of negligence of duty and incompetence. That is the word. 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."
}