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"content": "The donors must be thinking we are mad people. What has happened is that the borrowed money has left the respective banks of those countries. The money is with the National Treasury. Those countries are already charging interest. However, the money is at the National Treasury because Senators and Members of the National Assembly cannot agree; and governors and Members of the National Assembly are quarrelling. Do we really want devolution to succeed? Sen. Osotsi is here, he is in this House. We were at an informal but important meeting yesterday. It brought together Senators, Members of the National Assembly, governors, Principal Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries from a certain region of this country. When we were in that meeting, in his wisdom, Sen. Osotsi brought up this matter and was supported by the Governor of Busia County, Hon. (Dr.) Paul Otuoma. Do you know, shamelessly, the meeting almost went into disarray? Members of the National Assembly who were in attendance booed these two leaders in front of the President. We are not serious! As the Senate Majority Leader has told the country, the real reason is because Members of the National Assembly want to benefit from the contracts that will arise from these additional funds; some of them are contractors. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what do we do? If one of you is not doing any of these things, they say you are not woke, you are not up to it. If you are woke, you should be one of the people participating in those contracts, so that you look rich and live large. We are at a place where we have to speak to the soul of the nation and realize that this country will succeed or fail depending on us. The gist of this resolution if we pass it, is that the counties will now access a whooping Kshs50.5 billion; it is there. If we just pass it today, counties will access Kshs50.5 billion. Why would a Member of the National Assembly not support that money going to the county where he comes from and yet all counties are benefiting? The Senate Leader of Majority, the National Assembly Leader of Majority and the presidency, you must bring the leaders together so that we stop this nonsense. Members of Parliament are the ones delaying this because they want to do business. So, what have we done? We have created four schedules. We have made it easy, and you will see it. We want to apologize for not having tabled the report by now. We just finished a few minutes ago. In the First Schedule, we have put Kshs7.5 billion, which is the Additional Allocations that come from the national Government as a share of revenue raised nationally. I will go into specifics. Then in the Second Schedule, we have made it easy. We have brought and segregated the Kshs10.5 billion that governors and MPs are fighting over; the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF). We have created a second schedule for clarity. In the Third Schedule, we have put money that is realized from court fines that are collected at various points where we have courts in the counties. In the final schedule, we have then created a schedule showing the loans and grants. Having simplified it that way, we have taken the first important step, which we are asking this House to support this morning, namely, we have removed from the Bill The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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