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    "id": 1419803,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "a committee, which I also care about personally, is the fact that inflation and the cost of goods and services are not considered when you only use either previous year’s baseline or previously audited finances. That leaves the national Government benefiting from the fact that their revenue growth does cater for their budgets, inflationary issues, as well as the cost of goods and services. I think there is a lacuna in law under Article 203, which this House, because we have got radical conversations that are going on, must actually press to adjust that particular aspect, so that when we do revenue allocation, we should look at adjustment factors in terms of growth factors, including things like high cost of living, cost of goods and services, as well as inflation issues that we have in the country at any given point. The second thing I want to talk about is that we are passing the budget for FY 2024/2025 when the last audited accounts were done by the National Assembly in FY 2020/2021. It is imperative that we must take an opportunity either to amend the Constitution or adjust the existing laws that can compel the National Assembly to work with the speed, so that we always have audited finances to be the nearest possible to the financial year that we are passing. For instance, if we base the sharing of revenue on FY 2020/2021 and we are passing for 2024/2025, it will be a raw deal to county governments because it is not equitable and will not help them match the needs of what they are working on. Lastly, we must also caution our governors from making commitments that are national functions. Sometimes they make those commitments to an extent that it claws back on them. For instance, we have seen things like parks that are being built in the counties. We have seen programmes such as Community Health Promoters (CHPs) being shared between national Government and county governments. Our governors end up committing blindly to this---"
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