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    "id": 1015324,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1015324/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "One thing that is very clear is that the Commission of Revenue Allocation (CRA) and, of course, the Senate, have mixed the mutable factors with immutable ones, and have come up with a formula. This is where there is a big problem. For some time, when we are stuck with immutable factors like land, things are fairly clear. But when we bring in services as parameters, then we have a problem. It is a very big problem because these are factors that keep changing. For the last number of years, we have been implementing devolution and in those years, there have been those functions that are again listed here as factors for consideration. What does that mean? If we have been giving money for roads and for health facilities over the years, how come all over a sudden we want to use all those services as parameters; meaning that if a county did very well and used its resources to improve on its health facilities, it is now going to be punished for doing well because those who did not work well are now going to be getting much more money because they do not have facilities. That is where the problem is."
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