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"content": "than even when I was moving this Report. So, I truly thank hon. Members and the CoG. I believe the governors are listening. The message is clear. Hon. Senators may have diverse opinions, but they were united in one thing - please, develop your own source of revenue, so that going forward, we will not be continually dependent on the equitable share to survive running the counties. Two, hon. Senators have expressed a strong view that resources within the county, once we have released them from here, will be utilized properly, as intended, so that, we will not have money released by the Senate through these Bills, and then they go down there and then services are not given to the people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thirdly, Members may have had diverse opinions, but they agreed that time has come that money that is allocated from the budget should follow functions. The counties have been given a heavy load of functions and the national Government is not releasing the requisite funds so that our counties may develop. With all this divergent opinion, this House is a House of vision. It is a senior House, that is full of people with a lot of experience in their own professional fields, even in political leadership and administration. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I truly believe that by the time that we will come to bring this matter to a vote, we will have reached a consensus. Perhaps, those who expressed opinion differently from the Report will be persuaded, and we hope that many of us will come to support it. For me, the reason is that we have had a drop in the expected collections, and I remember, which I mentioned, but it is good for me to underscore this point, that, during the mediation process, after the cameras were removed, we were given facts and figures by the National Treasury, so that the question now moved from the wishful to the reality. That is, what can we disburse and what is available. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the debate here also captured that idea, that we need also to be alive to the fiscal realities that we live in the country today. So, with those many remarks, again, I thank you. I still say thank you for the leadership we enjoyed by Sen. Ali Roba. He was our team leader and the team from the National Assembly was led by Hon. Ndindi Nyoro. I still urge Members to consider supporting this Report. We can still keep talking about the issues we have raised but, fortunately, we will not be voting today. As I reply, I pray that between now and the time we will vote, we shall persuade each other to support this Report. With those remarks, I beg to reply and pursuant to Standing Order No. 66(3), request that the putting of the question be deferred to a later date. I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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