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    "id": 1167533,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "I hear my colleague, Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi, saying that we are that far. Let me just give him the comfort that we are indeed not that far. This is the second-last Report of the Committee that we are moving this afternoon. Hopefully, we shall be tabling a final Report before we adjourn next week. That report is going to be the last that has been brought to the House by the Auditor- General, in which case it means this Committee has caught up with the Auditor-General in examining his reports that are before the House, the import of which is enormous if you look at it from the perspective of Article 203 (3) of the Constitution. At the outset, let me say I am indeed extremely proud to have had the honour and privilege of chairing this wonderful Committee comprising of wonderful Hon. Members of this House. The tireless efforts of the Members has made it possible for this Report to be completed and to be tabled for debate in this House. The 2018/2019 Report, as I have indicated earlier on, is going to be the second-last report we are debating in this House in as far as the mandate of PAC is concerned. That means the succeeding Committee of the 13th Parliament will not be inheriting any backlog whatsoever of audit reports to be examined. They will be starting on a clean slate, picking up from where we have left—from the 2020/2021 Financial Year Audit Report, which we are almost quarter-way through. That means this House, through the Committee that I chair, has made it possible for our counties to receive the maximum possible revenue during revenue sharing with the national Government. In this Report, a number of issues have been highlighted. The first and most important is that the total nationally collected revenue of Kshs1,587,589,959,877 is going to form the basis of sharing revenue between the national Government and the county governments as contemplated in Article 203 (3) of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. This is going to be a whopping 12 per cent increase over and above the allocation that has happened previously as a result of our last Report that we tabled. Of course, this is a very big step towards strengthening devolution and ensuring that our counties function and are in a position to provide essential services to the population in the countryside. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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