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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "involves farming in whatever nature, the parameter takes care of the services, more so, the extension services. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other parameter is ‘Other County Services.’ This is a parameter that includes functions which are practised by the county governments. Among this is pre-primary education, the Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE), the village polytechnics, homecraft centers, children facilities, cultural activities and public entertainment, like bullfighting in Kakamega and the likes. This parameter is taking care of issues of drugs, pornography and so on. We gave this parameter 16 per cent, so that counties can offer services and even do some preventive measures on some of the issues that I have highlighted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the fourth parameter is the Basic Share. We know that counties have operational costs. They must survive in one way or another. Therefore, they must meet their operational costs. We decided that 20 per cent of the sharable revenue be shared equally to all the counties. However, we took one per cent of the allocation to be shared on inverse of the 2019 Population Census. This is to take care of the counties that have very low population. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other parameter is poverty. This is something that raises emotions. One of the things that comes up when we talk about poverty is that it has been agreed and confirmed---The Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) of 2015/2016 provided data on the number of people living below the poverty level or the so-called the poor. We allocated 14 per cent to that parameter. The sharing was based on parameters for development needs, economic disparities, among others. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we all know that when it comes to poverty, there could be some poor people in rural areas, for instance, Makueni County, but at the same time, we have the urban poor people. The urban poor could be poorer than the people who are in the rural areas."
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