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    "id": 1437298,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1437298/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang’",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. As I rise to support this Bill. There are some 12 counties in Kenya that even though we have raised the equitable revenue from Kshs385 billion to Kshs400 billion, they will continue paying salaries instead of doing development for our people. The 12 counties, including Lamu, which Sen. Githuku has just spoken about, represents what they do most of the time, which is just paying salaries. For example, Elgeyo-Marakwet County is getting an additional Kshs300 million in the next financial year from Kshs4.8 billion. This additional Kshs300 million will basically go to salary increments because every 1st of July each financial year, all salaries are increased by a certain percentage. This means that this marginal increase will not even go towards development. You can imagine, you spend Kshs4 billion to pay salaries and expenses and then Kshs1 billion to do development. This is not fair to the 12 counties. Come next year when we are doing the fourth round of revision of the formula, we will propose that at least each county should get Kshs6 billion, so that they can do some meaningful development. In the next 20 years, some counties will look like Kenya and Singapore. In 1972, they were at the same level, but now Singapore is very far, and in Kenya we are still where we were because of being marginalized. Most Senators here are very happy. Nairobi City and Kiambu counties have got an additional Kshs2 billion or Kshs1.5 billion, while some of us are getting below Kshs300 million. This is unfair. On own-source revenue, we want these counties to have a unified system, so that they do not have leakages in terms of revenue. There are some counties where they have leakages of revenue, and they do not declare all that they collect. We also need to have a discussion with our counterparts in the National Assembly. The last audited accounts that the National Assembly are using to face the 15 per cent that is going to the counties is about three years ago. They need to speed up. I agree with colleagues who have said that we need to include NG-CDF also on the last audited accounts, so that they can speed up. On the allocation---"
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