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    "id": 1015303,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "At the end of it all, unfortunately, what has been brought here is a revenue-sharing basis that is compromised on those two parameters to achieve some political expediency. They are saying that they do not care about revenue-raising measures or efficiency in the use of expenditure and are instead using that 4 per cent and lumping it in with the road network. It may be within the development component but what do roads have to do with efficiency in the use of revenue? Those are some of the things that we hope will be relooked at. The formula can still be reviewed at any one time even before the five years. We hope that they get back to thinking seriously about how we can do this. The other thing that I am sad about is that for equity purposes, it is good to say that no county should lose. However, one thing that we must be aware of is that since 2012, all these formulae were based on a controversial population in 2009. The census that was done in 2019 has brought some corrections. When you start talking of who will lose and who will gain, even if the second formula was to continue being applied with the current data, there were some counties whose revenues were going to be corrected, not in terms of losing but they would now be getting what they were entitled to get initially had the population not been exaggerated. That correction has been done but the Senate has ignored all that and said that everything should continue so that we carry forward even the misdeeds of the past. The Senate is saying that until the revenue goes to Kshs370 billion, we should continue receiving what we have been receiving. It is unfair to counties that are efficient. It is unfair to counties that…Are my 10 minutes up? It is unfair to some of those counties but unfortunately, unless we can raise two-thirds of the House membership, we cannot change a comma. It is not in our interest. We believe that there is still time for negotiation to get this formula to what it should be."
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