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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "of our colleagues shudder when they hear of that experience. I am happy we ended well with an extra Kshs53 billion. It is worth noting that in the previous financial year which is the year under review, we had Kshs316 billion. It is significant that we moved that with an extra Ksh53billion and we are now moving to Ksh370billion. Samburu was among the counties that were likely to lose but at least every county will gain. I have read the committee report and I am happy they have noted quite a number of issues regarding ceilings, staff, autonomy for the county assemblies and the county executives, mileage allowance for nominated MCAs and also ceilings in most of the allocations that have been provided by the SRC. Counties should use this Ksh370 billion- -- Nandi County has a first term governor. In FY 2017/2018, Nandi County was awarded Kshs5.1 billion, Kshs5.3billion in FY2018/2019, Kshs5.6 billion in FY2019/2020 and the additional Kshs1.4 billion that was approved through the Revenue Sharing Formula we are talking about. Nandi County will get Kshs7.0 billion this financial year apart from conditional grants and other grants. With the exception of Kshs7 billion outside the equitable sharable revenue, around Kshs20 billion has gone to Nandi County. There is a reggae song by Peter Tosh which says; “when you look outside the window, do you see anything to smile about?” He must have sang having Nandi County in mind because what is happening there is not commensurate to the disbursed amount. It is unfortunate. Lucky Dube also said that when we stop going to schools we start building more prisons. I think it is unfortunate that in Nandi County there is not nothing to smile about out of the amounts we have disbursed from FY2017/2018 up to this financial year that is coming to an end. We need to be careful because we are headed for elections. I have been sitting in the CPAIC. When a governor appears and we ask them what the problem was, they tell us that own source revenue was low because it was campaign period. We need to be careful even in the projection of own source revenue. The elephant in the room is the disbursement by the National Treasury. Governors have been complaining that the National Treasury owes them up to Kshs53 billlion. I am aware they received a little cash disbursement a few weeks ago. The National Treasury should be called to order because they are violating Article 219. They have an obligation of disbursing cash. I heard from presentations by colleagues that when the Cabinet Secretary in charge of National Treasury and Planning was supposed to appear before the committee, he claimed to be too busy. The public debt is approaching Kshs7.1 trillion. Word in the corridors of Parliament is that the Cabinet Secretary might be coming back to raise the public debt to Kshs12 trillion. I hope we will not be available since he is not available to answer to these queries. If they are borrowing money on behalf of all of us including counties, why is it that the counties are not getting timely disbursement of cash as provided for by Article 219 of the Constitution? That is why many people are complaining that the Judiciary is"
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