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    "id": 1504356,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Article 113(2) of the Constitution and Standing Order 150(3), this House adopts the Report of the Mediation Committee on the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.38 of 2024), laid on the Table of the House on Monday, 25th November 2024, and approves the mediated version of the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.38 of 2024). Hon. Speaker, I, first of all, wish to thank all the Members of the Mediation Committee, who spent long hours in trying to mediate this matter between the National Assembly and the Senate. I also wish to thank the Members of the Senate who attended the mediation sessions, led by the Co-Chair, Hon. Ali Roba. At the outset, when we met in the Mediation Committee, we agreed that we are all Members of Parliament in the National Assembly and the Senate, and that there was no tussle between our standpoints. It was just a matter of exchanging ideas, so that we come up with the optimal level in terms of the Division of Revenue Bill. As has been misconstrued before, we do not go for mediation because we are pulling in different sides. We meet because we are looking for the best option for the country. That is why even when the mediation sessions became very heated, we were able to conduct all the sessions with a lot of decorum, based on the fact that we were looking for the best figures for our counties, but also what the country could afford. The genesis of that process was when we passed the Budget in the middle of the year. What we usually call the Budget is the Appropriations Bill. We had already passed the Division of Revenue Bill. We need to align the Appropriations Bill, the Division of Revenue Bill, and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. The predicament in the Mediation Committee was that these were unprecedented times. There has never been a situation where we meet to revise the"
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