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    "id": 1427258,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "I have heard the Deputy President say that they want to take over liquor licensing in counties. I want to tell him that he has better things to do. Leave counties to run their function. Liquor is a county function where some counties get their revenues. If you say you want to take it over because you want to run it better, yet the national Government has functions which they are not running better, who is going to run those functions for them? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE). We have a lot of ECDE related functions which are still being run by the Ministry of Education. All those functions should be taken to counties and funds should follow. We want our counties to be run better, but they must have more resources to run those functions. This is a very timely Bill and with the little panel beating that I have indicated, we should all support and make it better. I am sure the National Assembly will also fast track this Bill so that we have a uniform, integrated county revenue management system. Probably this will help us deal with the problem of mismanagement of own source revenue which also affects budget control and performance. The leading audit query in most counties is the issue of budget control and performance because counties are not able to meet the set targets of own source revenue. Therefore, they end up having budgets which are not working and that becomes a query. In a way, this Bill will help in dealing with accountability and budget issues in our county and make our counties run better. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I finish, I am very disappointed. I know my friend Sen. Oketch Gicheru was a bit emotional on this issue. However, I also want to join my friend, Sen. Cherarkey, to say that I am disappointed with the mediation committee. We all agreed we passed the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) here. We made a majority decision and agreed that we will stick with the Kshs415 billion---"
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