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    "id": 1054308,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1054308/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "This is to ensure that we do not rush into making a decision today that we may also suffer its consequences. What you have said is, indeed, true. The Division of Revenue Bill that will give rise to the Division of Revenue Act is about the vertical division of revenue between the national Government and the county governments. Members are asking themselves why the Treasury wants to give money to the county governments at the expense of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). That is a justifiable question. The simple answer is what you have given in your Communication that, without the vertical division of revenue there will be no Appropriation Act to share the national Government sharable revenue, from which the NG-CDF would also benefit. That is why I beg that we soberly relook this issue. I know our emotions have been raised by things we have said to each other, particularly by the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Kimunya. When Members were ventilating on this issue, and you were in the Chamber, Hon. Kimunya walked into the Members’ Lobby and threatened Members that he could ask the President to dissolve Parliament."
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