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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. That is very interesting. You have never called me that name, but I will take it. I rise to support the County Allocation of Revenue Bill for the following reasons. I am happy that the money has finally been distributed to the counties. However, I am not happy with the amounts allocated to counties. The national Government keeps clawing back on devolution and allocating billions of shillings to Ministries yet county governments, where most of the population reside, are given peanuts. I was looking at the numbers. Although someone will clap and say Narok County has been given an additional allocation of Kshs171 million and the ceilings for the assemblies have been raised by Kshs1.4 million. What is that? We require the ceilings for the county assemblies to be raised so that they can oversee counties. With the little money allocated to the county governments, we need to ensure the fiducial responsibility of the accounting officers. This is where we are missing the point. We can realign our 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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