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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you for this opportunity. I join my colleagues in commenting on this Fourth Generation Revenue Sharing Formula. As I do that and from the word go, I want to say that I would have opposed this formula if I was able to move the numbers. Let us go on record on a number of issues now that we will not be able to move the numbers. Hon. Temporary Speaker, sharing public resources has never been an easy assignment. It actually triggers war and causes serious conflicts in some countries because resources generally determine how areas or regions develop. I have looked at the factors considered in this Fourth Generation Revenue Sharing Formula and the three previous formulas. If you analyse the first to fourth formula, they have dropped some things and onboarded new ones. They have been changing contribution percentages and it has impacted how much each county gets. I must appreciate the current formula for one thing: ensuring that, in future, no county will get less than what they have gotten in the past. That is important. Let me take you back to the history of this country. There was Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 on African Socialism and its Application to Planning in Kenya . What did that paper do? It emphasised on developing high potential areas in this country; meaning that allocation pushed public resources to areas seen to have high potential. From the word go, resource The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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