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    "id": 1474421,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Let me give you an example: The shortfall we are talking about here is Kshs346 billion. The Bill from the National Assembly has indicated that counties need to reduce their budgets by Kshs20 billion, which is six per cent of the current shortfall. This means that even in that conversation alone, we have not reached 15 per cent, yet counties will have lost money that is even lower than what they received in 2023 and 2024. Now, you can imagine if you pass a Bill that expressly indicates that in case of any shortfall, counties will get to partake in that shortfall up to 15 per cent. That means we can end up reducing the money for counties more than in previous years three times back. We cannot allow that clause to pass. So, I would say that we support this Bill by deleting Clause 3. Number two, there is an indication that in the shareable revenue, there needs to be about ---"
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