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    "id": 1169910,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kieni, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kanini Kega",
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        "legal_name": "James Mathenge Kanini Kega",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the County Allocation of Revenue Bill (Senate Bill No.1 of 2022) be now read a Second Time. This is the horizontal sharing of revenue to the counties through a formula adopted by the Senate and National Assembly. Through the Division of Revenue Bill, we discussed these issues at length and the Senate has done the same. The amount of money in terms of the shareable revenue given to the counties is Kshs370 billion. We hope in the coming year, the counties will utilise funds appropriated to them in the right manner. We have been doing this each and every year despite the fact that accountability issues are dealt with in the Senate. Yet, issues are raised here every other year. We beseech the Senate to be more vigilant and empower the county assemblies so that they can oversee these funds properly. The other issue is piling pending bills. In as much as we have pending bills at the national level, we also have many complaints at the county level whereby suppliers supply to county governments but subsequent governments are unable to clear these bills. During this transition period, county governments operate in perpetuity. We had a situation where one governor refused to honour commitments done by the previous county government. We want to remind them that a commitment by a government should be honoured. In conclusion, since this is an issue we have dealt with at length, we wish county governments will be allocated more funds and hope subsequent governments will commensurately fund devolved functions. Finally, we want to see county governments focusing on the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution on the devolved roles rather than dwelling on national Government functions. Hon. Deputy Speaker, with that, I beg to move and request the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Amos Kimunya to second."
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