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    "id": 1583259,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1583259/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yussuf Farah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the Motion on the Fourth Generation Revenue Sharing Formula. As my colleagues have said, if today we could achieve the two-thirds majority to reject this Motion, we could have done it. Unfortunately, we cannot do it. We are forced to support the Motion. For the record, I want to make my reservations. The Constitution has outlined policies and guidelines on how resources are shared between the two levels of government. However, despite the well formulated guidelines on revenue sharing formula, there has been a delay in agreeing on the amount to be allocated to the two levels of government because of certain interests. The factors used to determine revenue sharing are quite alarming. When one of the factors to be considered for revenue allocation to county governments is population index based on the 2019 Kenya population census, that clearly shows you how we do not care about certain parts of this country. We all know that the 2019 population census was cooked in the Ministry of Interior office by some crooks who pretended to be the officers conducting the census. Some areas have been deliberately marginalised and their population numbers tampered with and reduced by three quarters. The same parameter has been used to allocate resources to counties that have been marginalised for decades. The 2019 census results are in the corridors of justice. The Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) counties went to court to challenge the decision of the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics on Kenya population and housing census. That census was set aside. Using that nullified census results as a parameter to allocate resources to certain counties is not acceptable. That will return this country to Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 that was a deliberate attempt to marginalise specific areas and deny them their rightful resources in this country. The other issue is using geographical size as a determining factor and putting it at 10 per cent. What are we using …"
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