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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to thank our able Chairperson for the Committee on Finance and Budget for presenting this. The Chairperson of Finance and Budget Committee, Sen. Ali Roba, has actually captured most of the deliberations that we had in the Committee with regard to the BPS. My work even as I second will be a very easy one. I invite colleague Senators to be keen in some areas that we did deliberate on. I hope as you interact with this particular report, be keen, so that your contribution can help us make better comments in the future. Mr. Speaker, Sir, more importantly, there are areas that will also be important as we look forward to the DORA that is coming in a few weeks. That will be very important. The first area that I wanted to stress on is that, as a House, we are in this particular Parliament to protect the interests of counties. Therefore, what we should never lose sight of is that at any given point when we are doing a BPS, we should look at what is in the BPS that is there for counties. I know that under Article 216 and 217, the best body that can help us dissect what parameters we should be able to use to know what is the sharable bid that we want to go to the counties, would be Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA). Nonetheless, I think that this year, the committee will attest that we did not get a good report from CRA, particularly because we did not get a serious scientific quest from CRA because CRA did propose that we get to counties Kshs398 billion. As the Chairman has highlighted, the base that was used was wrong. Apart from that, there are other parameters that the committee is dedicated to, that this House must support. For instance, inflation has been a major factor in our economy. It has affected the price of goods and services for counties, the same way it does the national Government. We should look at these kinds of parameters in future to ensure that we give counties a shareable revenue that can help them solve their emerging complexities in the prevailing economic circumstance that we are in. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services, Senate."
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