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    "id": 1027212,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 202,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I take this opportunity to thank all the members who have spoken to this amendment. This day, I want to use the opportunity that I have to mourn a great man who was the President of Tanzania, President Mkapa. I was meant to attend the funeral of President Mkapa. I will use this opportunity to send our condolences to the family and to the nation of Tanzania. Sen. Wetangula, Sen. Orengo and I know the man very well. We worked to bring peace to this country. Let me also use this opportunity to disabuse this House of the kind of terminologies or words that we have used during the past few weeks. One of the prominent expressions used were ‘losers’ and ‘winners.’ However, the irony of this division of revenue is that the so called ‘losers’ were actually the ‘winners’ while what you call ‘winners’ are ‘losers.’ Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will give you the example of West Pokot County which has never crossed Kshs5 billion mark. When it gains something, it is called ‘gainer.’ Even with that gain, it has never reached where the presumed losers are in terms of how much they get. So, we all need to come together and help those who have been getting less money. Those who have been get a lot of money must give up something. That will be the best formula that will divide the revenue among counties. The politicization of this formula claiming that they are being marginalized and others saying they will suffer this or that, has been cured by this amendment. This amendment also cures that expression of ‘lose’ and ‘gain’. In fact, if we were to speak candidly to each other, the amendment benefit so called ‘losers’ more than the perceived ‘gainers.’ The amendment keeps the so-called ‘gainers’ on hold, while the so-called ‘losers’ gains. The people who claim to be losers should support this amendment because it good for them. In the next two financial years, there is nobody who will get less than what they are getting right now. So, without necessarily having to express myself more than this, I appeal to hon. Senators to support the amendment. There are people that I sympathise with, for example, those from Isiolo who are getting less and they are real losers. Therefore, if we had given ourselves a bit of time and not began to politicise this matter, we might have reached some agreement and have a middle ground. This is because---"
}