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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "tomorrow, Thursday being their second meeting, we shall officially be handing over to the new Chairman part of the work that I left. As I promised the House, I will continue working with the Committee and all Members. He has raised a very substantive issue. Indeed, I was astounded yesterday, even as we may not want to discuss the on goings in the other House, to note, on the debate on the County Allocation of Revenue Bill and the formula on the share of our revenues, a debate which we gather now is on the 8th sitting which was miraculously adjourned to a day that is not even on the calendar of that House. Great things are happening in that House. I noticed one of the proposed amendments to the Report on the share of revenue by a lady Senator whose name I cannot remember proposing to amend the Committee’s Report that has the import of amending the Division of Revenue Act, which is now an Act of Parliament. It is not even a Bill because it was passed by this House and as the Chairman rightly says, is a money Bill that emanates and is initiated from this House. It went to the Senate, they passed it and they shared resources to the tune of Kshs316.5 billion to our county governments. Now, a Senator sits in the Senate Business Committee and they even do a 411 saying that they have approved an amendment that will amend the sharable revenue going to counties. How? Therefore, I agree with the Chair that we need to ask the other House... I think there is a serious leadership crisis in that House. They need to get serious, at least, in being able to interpret statutes. If they cannot interpret their own Standing Orders, at least, they should be able to read, understand and interpret the Constitution and the law as it is and know what Bills they are mandated by the Constitution to initiate from the Senate and which ones, like those that are under Article 114 of the Constitution that are money bills, that can only be initiated from this House. I think it is only Lamu County that has only three Members of the National Assembly. Including County Women Representatives, all Senators have a minimum of four Members of the eNational Assembly that they can talk to from their counties to bring these Bills to this House. Therefore, it is not just an abuse of the parliamentary systems, but it is also a waste of public resources for Senators to purport to be sitting in the Senate to debate and pass money Bills that they know will be going nowhere. You heard the Chairman saying that they are all dead. I do not know who killed them. Fortunately, I am not the one who killed them. It is not anybody who has killed them. It is the Constitution that has killed those Bills because they cannot have emanated from the Senate. I ask Senators to please read and understand the Constitution. Understand that you cannot even imagine amending an Act of Parliament like the Division of Revenue Act through an amendment to a committee report on share of revenue and a formula. It is unheard of and unconstitutional. Without saying much, as I said, there is a serious leadership crisis in that House and I wish to beg they would come here for internship. With that, I beg to support the Chairman’s sentiments."
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