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    "content": "(Hon. John Mbadi): The constraints generally would be on cash flow challenges, especially where the funding is from GoK, and more particularly where we fail to meet the revenue targets by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). We have so many demands such that, at times, there are some months which are very bad, especially the months where we are repaying loans. We usually have challenges in the months of January, February, serious challenges in the month of May, and then July. Those are months where we repay the Chinese loan on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). Those are the same months, like January, where we pay capitation to schools, which is at times almost Kshs50 billion. Remember, in every month, we pay Kshs80 billion in salaries. So, if you add Kshs80 billion and Kshs40 billion, that is already Kshs120 billion. If you add that to debt repayments of approximately Kshs60 billion, that already is over Kshs200 billion, yet revenue collection in a month is an average of approximately Kshs200 billion. Now, that poses a problem to funding counties and other development expenditures. However, I would tell you that we still work very hard to make sure that counties get priority in terms of funding. 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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