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    "id": 1504359,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "In arriving at this figure, there are several amounts I would like to mention. The figure we had passed in the budget, in the Appropriations Bill was Ksh400.1 billion. The figure we ended up passing in Supplementary One is Ksh380 billion. The figure that the Senate requested we sustain is Ksh400.1 billion, but now, we have a figure of Ksh387 billion. This is an increase of approximately Ksh2 billion from the last financial year and an enhancement of Ksh7 billion from what was already passed in this House, which was Ksh380 billion. This figure is also higher than what is constitutionally required. Constitutionally, shareable revenue should constitute no less than 15 percent of the revenues from the last audited revenues. Hon. Speaker, as it stands now, we are allocating over 24 percent of the last audited revenues, which just goes to show that this House supports devolution, as our brothers and sisters in the Senate do as well. That is why, even when we met, there was no acrimony because we all knew that the money going to our counties is still going to serve the Kenyan people. The money going to our constituencies also serves the same Kenyan people. Therefore, there was no point in belaboring the issue of who supports and who does not support devolution. All of us in this House have shown, in the past and are showing now, that the National Assembly supports devolution. The Senate, too, in the Mediation Committee, was on the same page. There was no contestation; we all support devolution, and which is why we were able to conclude this issue in a very amicable manner. There was also another clause we had included in the initial report, which suggested that when there is a shortfall in revenue, both the national Government and the county governments should bear that shortfall in a manner that reflects their initial figures, what I would call proportionately. However, after deliberations, we noted something very consistent in this country: the National Treasury and Economic Planning sets revenue targets, but for the last ten years, we have never met our revenue targets even once. We decided in the Mediation"
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