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    "id": 1232742,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "them to agree after 11 sittings of debate, they bundled up the money supposed to go to counties as conditional grants. The other arm of Government, the Judiciary, actually unbundled it. That is why we ended up coming up with the new Act of Parliament, the Additional Allocation of Revenue to counties, but, we are here again. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is important for us to make sure we defend our counties. The Kenya Revenue Allocation (KRA) has presented to this august House that they have had no problem in meeting their targets and have even surpassed their targets. During an election year, KRA surpassed their targets by Kshs100 billion. Their projection currently is that they will surpass their budget with a net of Kshs380 billion. We are a country that has a lot of debts. Every child who is born today owes this country about Kshs150,000. The question is: What are the parameters we are supposed to look at when we are deviating from the recommendation of CRA? Are we supposed to deny counties money? That we are denying them money based on the division of revenue--- I invite my colleagues to look at the Bill as it came from the National Assembly. The Division of Revenue Bill as it came from the National Assembly following the requirements of Article 218, had a memorandum that said they are deviating because money had been sent to the Hustler Fund. Distinguished men and women of this House, I want us to ask ourselves and I challenge the Kenya Kwanza Administration on this. Their priorities are health and agriculture. Those two are devolved functions. Why are they adding Kshs45 billion to health and keeping that money in the national Government without sending it to the county governments?"
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