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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak to this Bill. This is the one Bill that I hope we can all have consensus on. I rise to oppose the Bill. The core mandate of the Senate includes the business of the House today. As the House that protects and represents, the interest of the counties, we need to bring sense to the matter of division of revenue between the two levels of Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what has been proposed by the National Assembly is a proposal of the National Treasury. I was disappointed last week when some stood up to suggest we should go with the figure proposed by the National Treasury. The neutral entity that has the responsibility with respect to this matter is the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). The CRA has proposed we go for Kshs407 billion to counties. That proposal provides about 10 per cent of the expected revenue that forms the basis for sharing this revenue. The Kshs385 billion that has currently been proposed only allows counties to receive 4 per cent of the revenues that forms the basis for sharing this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my view, the minimum 15 per cent should be what the national Government, in good faith, allows counties to receive from what we expect to get. The Kshs425 billion was proposed by the Council of Governors (COGs) because it is the minimum 15 per cent of the projected revenue that we are going to get. I read bad faith in this proposal. This is because if you take into account the inflation rate that we currently have, what the counties are getting is less than the Kshs370 billion they have been receiving in the past three years. It is less because inflation has now shot in excess of 9 per cent. Therefore, when you average the 4 per cent of that revenue, in real terms, given the prices that currently prevail, counties will be getting about Kshs360 billion in order to meet their services at an inflated price."
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