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    "id": 356633,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sambu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 137,
        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Hon. Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 5. The provision to offset variation of revenue collections by sometimes reducing the county share is inconsistent with the need to protect revenue share of 15 per cent, in accordance with Article 203(2) of the Constitution. If we delete it, it cures this problem. Hon. Chairlady, lastly I had the privilege of serving in the Budget Committee and our problem was how to get accurate focus from the Treasury. We told them Parliament will not tolerate any more inaccurate focus from Treasury. This year alone, for example, apart from the warning last year, the Treasury has a gap of roughly Kshs. 100 billion. If you have already given say Kshs190 billion to be allocated to the counties and you find there is a big variation, the counties will not work. The counties will have no cash. So, we are asking Treasury to come up with substantive accuracies that are focused to avoid this kind of situation. All over the world, we have a situation where variations are very minimal. But we have seen in the Kenyan situation that variations can be very big and to a large extent the counties may not be able to operate, if we have a big variation. Thank you."
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