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    "id": 1379367,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I thought I would take a minute just to make it simpler. My colleague Hon. Mutuse, a renowned lawyer in this country, has done justice to this amendment and so has Hon. (Dr) Oundo who is my diligent Member of the Committee. Allow me explain to Members in a few words what this amendment seeks to do. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we are required by the Constitution to divide revenue between national and county governments every year. That should be based on ordinary revenue collected, audited and approved. The last audited and approved accounts are the ones that are used. That is why we are passing this Motion to make that revenue available. What was wrong in the report which we are trying to correct? This is something that we engaged our minds about. We realised that we have been making this mistake all these years. The mistake is that under non-tax revenues, we have been double-accounting for the same amount. We have been including the same amount twice in our reports. We were almost repeating the same mistake. Sometimes, State corporations take loans from the Government. They pay back with interest. When that money is received, it is usually paid to an entity which is called Government Investment and Public Enterprises (GIPE). Once that money is received by GIPE, it is recorded as revenue. When that money is transferred in full to the Exchequer, it is again recorded as income. Thus, the same amount is recorded as income when it is received by GIPE and when it is transferred to the Exchequer, it is again recorded. What we are doing with this amendment is very simple: we are removing this double entry so that we do not inflate Government ordinary revenue which is to the tune of Ksh56 billion. It is so that we have the correct amount of money which is received by Government to be used as the amount for sharing our revenue between the national and the county government, vertically. That is the essence of this amendment. I hope I have been a bit clearer to the Members. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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