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    "id": 1134296,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is exactly what I was saying. That in President Uhurus’ Government, he is proposing Kshs370 billion, but Sen. Kibiru, the right hand man of President Uhuru Kenyatta, has brought a very serious critic of this Report, saying that if we are going to go by Kshs370 billion again, we will fall from the 22 per cent we are at the moment to 17 per cent. As we continue with the national debt and so forth, it looks like we are even going to go below the 15 per cent required. As Sen. M. Kajwang’ captured so well, if the National Assembly had done its work to approve the audited accounts and we use the audited accounts of this financial year, the same way Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) says ---. If we were to use the audited accounts of this financial year, assuming that the accounts would be audited on time, we would be now talking of maybe 13 percent of the revenue collected nationally going to counties. What am I trying to say? If I do not say anything today from this Budget Policy Statement, I must say that the deceit and hypocrisy of the politics of BBI must be exposed in this Chamber. The proponents and the preachers and the apostles and bishops of BBI must take responsibility for the lies they have given to the public; that they intended to change the Constitution to increase revenue. They are giving these people of Kenya not an extra Ksh1 to go to counties. They are saying we will allocate all the Kshs370 billion to counties and this Kshs370 billion is 17 per cent of the revenue raised nationally using audit of accounts of Financial Year 2017/2018. If you apply the audited accounts of this year, even if it is not audited as BBI was proposing, we are nowhere close to 15 per cent. Ye preachers, Pharisees and Sadducees, who have been lying to the people of Kenya, we want to tell them, come ye out, come out, come out and own up to your lies and politics of conman ship. I thank you Sen. Wetangula, the Party Leader of FORD Kenya, a man we surely respect for capturing this point of Kshs490 billion. That Kshs490 billion is not enough."
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