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    "id": 1437235,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 194,
        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to take this opportunity, just as my colleagues have done, to congratulate the committee, which was negotiating the Division of Revenue between the Equitable Shareable Revenue. They did a good job. However, the job they did as far as I am concerned, is not enough. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you talk of division of revenue, you should always take into consideration the fact that there is inflation in this country. Therefore, when you are saying that you give counties at least 15 per cent of the total revenue of the last audited accounts which was two to three years ago, you are not taking into consideration that every year there is an inflation of more than 10 per cent. Consequently, when you give an increment of say, Kshs500 or Kshs200 million on Kshs7 billion, for example, for my County of Siaya, you are giving nothing. When you talk of real money, it means the value of that money at that particular time. We cannot be saying that we are giving counties more money when in fact we are not giving them more money. We are just giving them the same money that we gave them last year because that increment that we give is consumed by inflation. I know that when we give money, there are people, particularly in the county assemblies, who are very uncomfortable with this oversight that you want to do. A confusion that the Senate wants to take over the role of oversight from the county assemblies is far from the truth. We cannot just be allocating money to the counties and we are expected not to monitor how that money is spent. There is a role, which the county assemblies play. There is also a big role for the Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have sat down with my county Government and told them about our limit of where we are going to go. There are guidelines, which have been given here that do not touch on the functions of the county assemblies. Let the assemblies do their monitoring part and let us also continue doing our part. 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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