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    "id": 1394722,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1394722/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to comment on the Division of Revenue Bill, which will eventually become the Division of Revenue Act (DoRA). From the outset, I support the Bill on the vertical sharing of revenue between the two levels of government. This is on the account of surpassing the threshold set in the Constitution of Kenya and on understanding that the purpose of devolution was development and empowerment of the grassroots and the promotion of equitable share of development in this country. We need to be extremely careful with how we deal with devolution. We started with District Forecast for Rural Development and have come through various forms. The NG-CDF is a form of devolved function, same as the Equalisation Fund and others. The question which policy researchers or bold persons have not asked is the impact of the billions we have pumped into devolved units since their inception after the 2013 general election. In the 2024/2025 Financial Year, Parliament approved 24.9 per cent of revenue after adopting the Report of the Public Accounts Committee of the 2020/2021 Financial Year. I have gone through policy prescriptions by the Budget and Appropriations Committee and some of them are a sad read while some are an admission of the factors we have been talking about on the Floor of the House and in public arenas. It is something the Government of the day has strenuously..."
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