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    "id": 1245468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Allow me to join my colleagues who have thanked the Committee on Finance and Budget for a job very well done. In continuation of the discussion we were having yesterday, I would want the House to pay attention to a matter that has been referred to by the Committee at page 14 of the report. This is on the question of the need for revenue allocation that anticipates the conditions in the country and on the ground. In item No.11 the Committee tells us that the annual inflation currently stands at 6.5 per cent. The problem we have with this, is that every single year, the amount that is allocated to counties must consider some of these issues. If this is done, then you will not look like you are adding revenue or resources to the counties, when in the larger macroeconomic climate, you are doing the exact opposite or nothing at all. If it is true that annual inflation is currently at 6.5 per cent and then you look at what the Senate approved to go to counties in terms of marginal increase, it was only representing about four per cent. The Kshs15 billion extra in the Division of Revenue is about four per cent of the entire amount of Kshs370 billion allocated last year. That tells you if you merge those two figures – the annual inflation and the marginal increase in the allocation to the counties – we have done a disservice to counties. This is part of the issue we were raising yesterday and on the date of debate on division of revenue. Madam Temporary Speaker, for instance, Nairobi City County was allocated Kshs19.25 billion in the financial year ending June 2023. We are getting a marginal increase of only Kshs823 million in this particular financial year. Now, Kshs823 million in the context of the problems of Nairobi City County--- Nairobi City County has"
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