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    "id": 1018856,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "Every time I passed by Sen. Murkomen or Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., that is the name they referred to me as. It seemed like something that was so farfetched, but the principle behind that proposal was the fact that the national Government is holding 85 per cent of the national revenue and giving counties only 15 per cent. We need more of the monies from the 85 per cent, following the functions that have already been devolved to the counties. We have functions that are devolved, but funds are still at the national level. Those are the funds we were targeting, so that they are released. I am glad that the Executive, headed by President Uhuru Kenyatta, has heeded to the call that we need more funds to follow the functions that were devolved to the counties. He heeded that and gave us Kshs53 billion in addition to the Kshs316 billion, to get a total of Kshs370 billion. With Kshs370 billion, we were able to resolve this issue, remove the stalemate, and we got all counties to gain. No county is losing. Madam Temporary Speaker, because people are thanking others, I want to thank Sen. Kang’ata, with whom we worked on this proposal. I want to thank the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) for going through our figures and approving them before we presented that proposal to the Senate Business Committee (SBC). I also thank Sen. Cherargei who contributed to this proposal. Most importantly, I failed to get a Seconder to that proposal completely because everyone was stuck to their team. I could not get Senators from Team Kenya. I pleaded with some of them; they refused because they were so tight. I was so impressed by their unity. I ended up getting Sen.(Dr.) Mwaura. Thank you, very much Sen.(Dr.) Mwaura for believing in that proposal that I brought. You seconded me and we named it the Nominated Members’ proposal."
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