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    "id": 1044324,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "and Social Welfare this coming weekend. We have not approved, but we intend to do our planning because there are a lot of matters of labour and social welfare that we need to focus on. Finally on what Sen. Wetangula has said, the radar of the Senate must be up. Our antennas must be up. If you look at the proposals that have been brought by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and now the National Treasury is talking about, there is an attempt to circumvent the resolution of this House on the formula through the back door. The proposal is that the Kshs316.5 billion is what is equitable share and the rest to come through conditional allocation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senate will resoundingly reject that. There is a reason why we went painstakingly through the process and we got a promise of Kshs370 billion. The Kshs370 billion will be found, not by additional resources, but by reallocating the 80 per cent or whatever goes to the National Government. You find many functions that are devolved, for instance, agriculture and health have huge budgets at the national level yet that money needs to be at the county. I know this year there will be a lot of politics. I would urge Senators from across the divide on certain sacrosanct issues which are fundamental to the mandate of the Senate, let us see eye to eye. Let us not be divided."
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