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    "id": 1160974,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for asking me to weigh in on this matter. This is a very important element in our oversight of the county governments. Division of Revenue Bill and as Sen. Sakaja has clearly stated, is a division of revenue earned by the national Government through the machinery of the National Treasury. They have the mandate of collecting the funds into the national kitty. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Constitution stipulates that there shall be division of revenue whereby the revenue will be based on the last audited accounts. I have had problems with that “last audited accounts”. That is why when I was the Chairman of the CPAIC, we tried to speed up to enable the National Assembly come to speed with us so that we have updated audited accounts. It is because the division of revenue would be based on that last audited accounts. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are talking of the last audited accounts of 2016/2017. That is only under Kshs1 trillion. That is why we are getting this, when we are being told, it is 26 per cent of the national revenue, based on 2016/2017 books of accounts, the last audited accounts. It means that county governments are foregoing tremendous loss in terms of revenue accruing for them to run their services at the county level. If we were to base it on the current projections of the budget which is above Kshs3 trillion, then we are talking of a very sizeable division of revenue accruing to the county governments in a manner which will help the county governments scale up their activities. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we were haggling last time over the question of whether it should be Kshs320 billion, we finally settled on Kshs370 billion. It was evident---"
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