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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I support the Bill with the amendment that the amount should be raised to Kshs415.9 billion. What the National Assembly has done is unacceptable and must be resisted. However, we shall only succeed if we stand as a single House. I pray that the Government side does not betray us again this time. They should stand with us. The National Assembly has undermined devolution in many ways. I invite this House to look at Clause 2 of the Division of Revenue Bill. It states that- “In this Act unless the context otherwise requires, ‘revenue’ has the meaning assigned to it under Section 2 of the Commission on Revenue Allocation Act”. When you look at the Commission on Revenue Allocation Act, what it prescribes is not what the Constitution anticipates. Article 202 of the Constitution states- “That revenue raised nationally shall be shared equitably among the national and county governments”. When you go to that section of the Commission on Revenue Allocation Act, it describes revenue to mean taxes imposed by the national Government under Article 209 of the Constitution and any other revenue, including investment income that might be authorised by an Act of Parliament, but excludes revenues referred to. Those excluded revenues are supposed to be part of the revenues that constitute the whole, and upon this House, we must fight to make sure that we get those revenues back as part of the unit for computing the revenues that go to the county governments. Otherwise, these people have played us. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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