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    "id": 1015690,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ahmed Kolosh",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Kolosh Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. From the beginning, let me thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for doing this work very fast. I also thank the Senate despite all the things that were going on there. We must say that the Senators have done their best to work for one Kenya. The tragedy of Parliament, in my view, is that we pass the buck on many issues we can handle ourselves. We are in many problems because of not doing some of the things we are supposed to do like the two-thirds gender rule which is in our hands. We are either to drop the whole Article or not or raise the budget that goes to counties from 15 per cent to the 35 per cent. Nothing stops Parliament from appropriating money to that effect. There are many parameters used in the revenue sharing formula. One of them is population. The tragedy about it is that it is based on the census results. I stand here to say that half of the people of Wajir West Constituency were not counted simply because they are pastoralists. The Kenya Bureau of Statistics did not provide transport for the enumerators and people collecting data. Information was only collected from people who were in divisions, locations and settlements that are captured under the survey. So, it is important that if we are going to talk about census results used for the population parameter, then we must count every Kenyan and resources must be availed to reach every Kenyan where he or she is. On the parameter of health, we are talking about accessing Levels 5, 4 and 3 hospitals. How do you access what you do not have? There are constituencies that do not have hospitals of these levels. It is the role of Government to provide those services. If you have not constructed such facilities, how do you share revenue on their accessibility especially on times and places where they are not? How do you, also, talk about agriculture and it appears like you are only talking about crop production? Livestock and fisheries are part and parcel of agriculture. It is important that the Budget and Appropriations Committee, and I am proud that the Chair is here, takes cognisant of the formula and parameters and that in the next Budget that will come to the National Assembly whether through the Supplementary Estimates or the main Budget we are going make, be subjected 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."
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