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"speaker_name": "Igembe North, JP",
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"content": "about the Bill, anybody coming thereafter is just repetition. So, what we need to understand is that when we are moving a country forward, there are those who do not feel comfortable when the country is being run well. For this reason, when they are cowards and do not want to vote no, they do not want to even hear people who are proposing and talking sensible things. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have heard somebody saying that every county should have been given a seat in the BBI. If you follow that pattern, this is what is being cured in the BBI. The counties were given seats based on population not tracts of land like the one in North Horr. That kind of lie coming out of here is going to poison the country. It is the population of Kiambu, Nakuru and Nairobi. It is the population of Meru that make it get two seats. Anybody who says that you are being denied a constituency, and that is why you should fight the Bill, do not be a liar as a leader. Look at the country and tell them the truth. As I continue, when you say you do not remember about the ruling by the Speaker when he gave direction, a Member of this House who was here, a nearly two hour ruling by the Speaker actually took most of our debate. I will only want to raise a small point here that when we want to hear those who are advocating for tracts of land instead of population, the BBI is very clear. They want to advocate for one man one vote one shilling. It is for that reason you will find that if we are to double the revenue from 15 per cent to 35 per cent, if you go to a county like Meru, they will move from Kshs9 billion to Kshs18 billion. If you go to Nyandarua County, it will be from Kshs4.8 billion to Kshs7 billion, Nyeri County will be from Kshs5.4 billion to Kshs9.8 billion, Nairobi County will be from Kshs15.9 to Kshs31.5, Kirinyaga County will be from Kshs4.2 billion to Kshs8.3, Murang’a will be from Kshs6.3 billion to Kshs10.8 billion, Nakuru will be from Kshs10.7 billion to Kshs21 billion and Kiambu will be from Kshs9.4 billion to Kshs18.5 billion. If you are fighting the BBI, you need to look at the people from those counties that I have mentioned and tell them that this is what you are fighting, smile at them, mock them and show them how your politics are very important. Those who say that if you were not able to deliver 15 per cent you may have a problem in delivering 35 per cent are just bold-headed liars. We are talking about the revenue collected in a specific year. That from this year onwards, if the BBI goes through, anybody, when you collect your revenue, you will share 35 per cent to the devolved units and whatever is left, you do at the national level. So, let us not use propaganda. Let us not incite the people and when you do it, be honest. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I have said, the rebellion or the civil war has been within the Jubilee Party, specifically within our Mt. Kenya region. When the President organised to talk to leaders on 29th January 2021, the leaders from the same region sat down and did exactly 11 pages of an insult after insult on every paragraph to the President. These are problems that we will need to handle in Mt. Kenya after the BBI and during the BBI. We want to hear leaders saying how brilliant they are by saving their people not by seeking political positions."
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