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    "id": 1231922,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, are we being fair to the counties? I am calling on all Senators to remember that the Senate exists to protect counties. We should not be part of the choir that the National Treasury says and we follow, because it has said. Let us be part of the House that will bring sanity to the matters of sharing the revenue. The court ruled earlier that audited accounts of the preceding years should form the basis for sharing revenue. As a country, we are not working hard to use the correct formula in sharing of revenues. We are using accounts that are two or three years back and yet the actual shareable revenue is the revenue we are projecting. I read a lot of insincerity in the way this proposal has been made. I do not see any good faith. The sectoral budgets in agriculture and health have received Kshs10 and Kshs15 billion extra and yet they are devolved. Why are they getting more funds instead of those funds going to the counties? If the Kshs15 billion, I am speaking about on the two sectors was moved to the counties, it would bring Kshs400 billion. Therefore, I suggest the Senate looks at the report submitted by our committee. The Committees must mean something. We cannot trash our own Committees when they sit and spend a lot of time to come up with technical evaluations of what they are doing yet their recommendations align with that of the CRA. This Senate needs to rise to the occasion and do the right thing. It should not just back this Bill because it has come from the National Assembly. Otherwise, why do we exist as the Senate? We need to do our job. I call upon every Senator to do the right thing. Let us move an amendment and ensure we give our counties the correct figure."
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