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    "id": 1108318,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "The third one, which we always focus on is the inter-governmental fiscal transfers; the revenue sharing that we debate here in this Parliament. We normally do that before we look at number one and two. Number one says what we should do and what this other level should do. Then number two says how much you can raise to do it. Ideally, if you look at countries with a similar fiscal decentralization, number three, the intergovernmental fiscal transfer or the money we give to counties, which is a minimum of 15 per cent, is normally to bridge the gap between number one and two. Counties now just depend on that. They are not looking for ways to increase revenue or negotiate the expenditure responsibilities. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, four is what we call sun-national borrowing. The only statement that is there in our Constitution is that the national Government shall guarantee borrowing by counties yet we know that many counties enter into borrowing without any approval from the national Government because when you get an overdraft, that is borrowing and most counties have some accounts that run into overdrafts so that they can facilitate some payment yet that is not how it should be done. Some of the examples that I will give will be focused on Nairobi County, because that is where I am elected. Allow me to digress. I cannot help but notice the shining badges of the recipient of the Chief of the Order of the Burning Spear (C.B.S.). I congratulate Sen. Nyamunga and Sen. Madzayo and welcome them to the club of CBS holders. However, they will be told that moving forward, they will be told that when they wear the big badge, they should not wear the one that they have on now. The badges are for different purposes but when worn, they look good together; the lapel, the badge is especially for uniform and the sash is also amazing. I would just remind them that they should always be careful when wearing the sash so as not to wear it with the flag upside down. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the examples that I will give are those of Nairobi County. Two of the biggest problems in Nairobi County are; the lack of a proper mass transit system which involves rail, rapid bus and road network. The cost of such a system as it cannot be afforded by a county like Nairobi because we need to do a proper train system like the ones we see in any 21st Century global hub and Nairobi is a global hub. We need a rail system that moves from the biggest roads, in our case, the Thika Super Highway up to this other side of town. We will also need another railway where the Nairobi Express Way has been constructed. The more roads we do, the more traffic we will get. There is a book that I recommend to Senators that was written by the biographer of former President of the United States of America (USA) President Lyndon B. Jonson but it is about a man called Robert Moses and the fall of New York. Mr. Robert Moses, for many years kept on building roads and more roads in New York City and that is why to date, New York has issues with traffic on the roads. Instead of focusing on mass transit, he just did roads. Although New York has the subways, which reduce some of the pressure, behind all that, it is a mess. That just goes to prove that the more roads we do, the more traffic we get. We constructed Thika Road hoping that the traffic would reduce traffic. As a result of the"
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