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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. As I thank you, I want to acknowledge the fact that today is a unique day because this is the first time this House is discussing the budget of the new Government. Therefore, I want to appeal to my colleagues, Members on both sides, let us again demonstrate to the country that we are prepared for a fresh start. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I, therefore, rise to Second this Motion as moved. As a Member of this Committee of Finance and Budget, I am happy to report to this House that if we proceed in the spirit that the Committee moved, that is the Members of Azimio Coalition and Kenya Kwanza Party in the Committee, we have concurred on everything. I, therefore, hope that this bipartisan attitude over this very important issue will be demonstrated on the Floor of this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, because the Senate Majority Leader has led us through just about everything on the Bill, I will spend a very short time in walking Members through what we found. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with our concession with the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in charge of the National Treasury, he appealed to us that the state of the economy as it is, which I do not want to expand on, he can only request us to support Government if it is going to give the county governments Kshs385.4 billion. We took note. We then invited the Council of Governors (CoG) and they requested that we ask this Parliament, both the National Assembly and the Senate, to allow the sharable revenue to grow from Kshs370billion to Kshs425billion and they gave good reasons. We had no reason to fault them. Then, came our team of experts, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), which then told us that in their view, of course, by using different reasons to recommend a figure of Kshs407 billion. We have gone through, agonized over it and made the following recommendations. The first recommendation that we have made is that the allocation to the Equalization Fund for the Financial Year 2023/2024, should be Kshs8.65 billion calculated as per Article 204 (1) of the Constitution of Kenya. Secondly, we have recommended that the Road Development Levy Fund should not be disbursed as equitable share and, thus, should be disbursed as part of the County Additional Allocation."
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