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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruto",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Prime Minister has made a Statement on a matter that is of great importance to us. I want to ask certain clarifications. First, it is clear that the life of this Parliament expires on 14th of January and there will probably be no Parliament until around mid March. This is the case and yet the county governments will be expected to function and do their budgetary processes during that period and yet if this Parliament expires on 14th of January, the Auditor-General is supposed to finish audit of revenue within six months, that means the end of December so that the CRA can prepare a report for the purposes of division of revenue. Then there should be a Bill for division of revenue before this Parliament operating both as the Senate and the National Assembly and yet there will be no Parliament. Therefore, how will the counties prepare their budgets when they have got absolutely no idea what monies are available for them to use in that coming year? What has the Government done to ensure this happens, either the auditing is done earlier or elections are held in December so that there is a Parliament continuosly; so that all these issues raised in the Constitution are actually adhered to and that there is no vaccum? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wonder whether the Bill on the Provincial Administration will be done before then otherwise, it is a danger to the devolved government units."
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