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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Gataya Mo Fire",
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    "content": "for a number of activities. I am sure there are many other counties that are really struggling to make ends meet. It is through this House that we are supposed to create a system to make sure that we make some reviews and considerations on how we are supposed to create better formulas, which the CRA is supposed to use to allocate money to counties. It is important to note that as much as we discuss--- I want to support Sen. Cheptumo who said that we have a problem when it comes to revenue collection in the counties. There are quite a number of leakages. One of the reasons we have pending bills is because counties budget but fail to meet revenue targets. That is why they end budgeting for things but along the way fall short of the budget. That way, you fail to meet your target and therefore you cannot even pay the contractors and so on and so forth. In that respect, we are supposed, as a Senate, to make sure that we create a system to strengthen the revenue allocation to counties. That way, we will strengthen their revenue base. This is a critical Bill. As a Senate, we are supposed to make sure that we move with a lot of speed. Like now, there is a lot of cry in the counties. The information we have is that it is almost five months since counties last received their allocation. You can imagine five months down the line and people have not been paid salaries, there is no development going on or anything like that. There is quite a number of pending bills in those counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in that respect, I beg to strongly support the Bill, so that we make sure that our counties realise the allocation that is intended for. I thank you."
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