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    "id": 1231513,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "have passed the disbursement schedule for the current year but no money has come to our counties. What are we doing about it? The Committee of Finance and Budget needs to take this issue of disbursement of funds by the schedule seriously so that when we sit here and pass, it is the law. It cannot be varied by anyone. In fact, the national Government is violating the Constitution because the law is very clear. If you raise one shilling, 15 per cent of that one shilling should go to the counties while 75 per cent should remain in the national Government. However, that is not what is happening. They raise money, put it under priorities and forget about counties. This is an issue of serious national concern that, this House which has powers under Article 96, should take seriously so that we protect the interests of our counties. On the issue of corruption, we know that there is misuse of funds in our counties. We know that some of the money that is budgeted for in the counties is not used in the right manner. As the Senate Majority Leader has pointed out, we need to take our role seriously as Senators."
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