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"content": "Act. The National Assembly created three centres of power in the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). All these things need to be revisited, so that this House can assert its place. However, as a result of the budget, we must stand firm and ensure that what is rightfully supposed to be for devolution, including looking at the Division on Revenue Act being amended, to define revenue as it is defined in the Constitution. It should not be as the National Assembly would like to have it; where we begin off at a disadvantage by sharing less than what we are entitled to as a Senate and our counties then continue starving. Some have said that there is corruption in the counties. Yes, but we have the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Officer Commanding Station (OCS) and all these organs that are supposed to deal with corruption. That is not our problem. Go and deal with those governors and the county officials where there is corruption. Our business is to ensure that the right amount of money is going down to the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I am very happy for the opportunity you have given me this afternoon to address this House. I fully support the report of the Committee, that we reject in total, the attempt to reduce the amount of money going to the counties as proposed by the National Assembly. I support the report. I thank you."
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