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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity for Kiambu to also speak on the issue of the Division of Revenue Bill, 2025. I equally oppose the Kshs405 billion that the National Assembly is proposing that we take to the counties for the financial year 2025/2026. If I can refer you to Clause 8 of the Bill, they are talking about Kshs405 billion, which they are boasting to be 25.8 per cent more from the previous year. However, they are basing it on the last audited and approved actual revenue raised nationally for the financial year 2020/2021. We are in the year 2025, but they are basing this allocation to the year before the current governors got into Government. They have raised taxes, and collected more money, yet they are basing their allocation based on the Financial Year 2021/2022 before the Kenya-Kwanza administration took over. You can see, they have a sinister motion within the whole process. We have talked about raising this money to over Kshs460 billion. I am a maths person. I can help them do the maths where this money is going to come from, so that they can give counties Kshs460 billion for the Financial Year 2025/2026. One, there is this allocation of county aggregation and industrial parks, where the national Government holds about Kshs250 million per county. If you do the math, that is Kshs11.7 billion. Hence, you add it to Kshs4billion or Kshs5billion. There is a lot of money for bursaries that the national Government receives from the counties. They give the counties, then the counties give back through bursaries to national Government institutions. The national Government is actually taking the same amount of money through back doors. However, if you put this money together, so that counties are cushioned from the monies that they give as bursaries, they will get Kshs500 million per county. That is about Kshs23.5 billion."
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