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    "id": 1064281,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not have issues with the Senate having equal numbers. I think even the American Senate is represented by two Senators. How they relate is how we should be relating because sometimes you may have two Senators from one county but on the opposite side of the House. How will we be coordinating and representing the county, when we are on opposite sides of the House? Those are some challenges we will grow with as we progress. That will make sure that we improve the representation and gender equity. With that, there is always room for improvement. In this Bill, there are concentrated areas, which I think enhance devolution, especially on the aspect of resources. If we attain that, I am sure counties will get more resources and develop. However, Clause 203 on capping has an effect. For example, my County of Marsabit may not get less than what we are getting because already, the sharable revenue has been increased using the current audited revenue. If that capping was not there, then we will get four times per capita of Nairobi City County. Now, a three-time maximum has been introduced arbitrarily without any scientific backing and automatically, Marsabit County will lose a quarter of whatever it was to get. It may be more than what we get now, yes, but we still lose a quarter because of this arbitrary insertion of this clause. I hope the only way out, as we have been told, is to wait for it to go through and then seek constitutional interpretation. Maybe that is an area people from affected counties have to look at and see how to remove that claw back on revenue. To me, it looks like a backdoor introduction of one man, one shilling which we defeated during the debate on the the revenue formula."
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