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    "id": 1077312,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1077312/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kieni, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kanini Kega",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1813,
        "legal_name": "James Mathenge Kanini Kega",
        "slug": "james-mathenge-kanini-kega"
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    "content": "the County Allocation of budget ceilings of Recurrent Expenditure in the Financial Year 2021/2022. The First Schedule of the County Allocation of Revenue Act, 2021 provides for horizontal distribution of the equitable share amongst the 47 counties using a formula approved by Parliament in September 2020, which was arrived at by using one-half of the equitable share allocated to the counties in the Financial Year 2019/2020 amounting to Kshs158.25 billion and netting out from the equitable share of Kshs370 billion whereas the resulting balance of Kshs211.7 5 billion is allocated among counties using the following. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beseech Members not to contemplate on this formula because the Senate took two years to agree on it, namely, the 18 per cent population index plus 17 per cent health index, plus 10 per cent agriculture index, plus 5 per cent urban index, plus 14 per cent poverty index, plus 8 per cent land area, plus 8 per cent load index, plus 20 per cent basic share index. I know many Members are lost on this one. As I said earlier, the Senate took two years to agree on this formula. The proposed Second Schedule is in relation to county governments’ budget ceilings on Recurrent Expenditure for the county executives and the county assemblies for the Financial Year 2021/2022. The recommendations seek to fulfil the requirements of Article 216(2) and (3) of the Constitution of Kenya and Section 107(2) of the Public Finance Management Act. The Senate, in their considerations, made some amendments. They noted that county assemblies have raised concerns on non-disbursement of all budgetary allocations, and that the slow or delayed Exchequer releases have contributed to loss of unspent resources at the end of each financial year as well as spanning of bills from one financial year to the other. Today, the Council of Governors has bought full pages in the newspapers lamenting that they have not received funds for the last four months. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Senate has also observed that county governments have pending bills, which include pending remittances to the County Pension Fund amounting to Kshs26.02 billion as at 31st December 2020 and Kshs14.57 billion for the Local Authorities Pension Trust Fund as at 30th November 2020, as indicated by the Report of the Controller of Budget. With the ceilings of the recurrent budget remaining the same as in the Financial Year 2020/2021, county governments might have a challenge in settling the pending bills and have insufficient resources to meet statutory requirements and offer other services."
}