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    "content": "of meeting specified county governments expenditure including financing county expenses relating to development programmes. The bill on county allocation, when it is through from Senate will come here and so this particular House having understood and having included this definition will now have parameters with which to check the allocations that have been provided for the counties. The one that I am completely passionate about and do really care for is the county allocation which will be defined to mean the share of national revenue computed in accordance with Article 203 of the Constitution, that is allocated for use of the county government consisting of the county executive and the county assembly. This National Assembly is the mother assembly to all the legislatures that we have in this country including the Senate. We remain their mother; they really are not the upper house. As the mother of all other legislatures, it is important that this particular House protects the county assemblies. If you look at the revised schedule on page 3, you will see in the breakdown that there is cost of ongoing devolved functions at kshs.167 billion, the county government administration cost at kshs.7.5 billion, the county public finance management cost at kshs.5 billion, the county public service board and inflation adjustments. You do not see any allocations secured and ring fenced for the purposes of the county assembly. As we move forward, we need to ensure that we give the county executives and the county assemblies their money and that it is not the county governor to go and decide how much to give the assembly. If we agree with the principle that “county allocation” in the definition part means money to be applied to the county executive and the county assembly, we will have given ourselves a chance to consider in the allocation bill whether both categories are catered for. Even in terms of this schedule, it would be preferable if Treasury also from the outset gives us allocations separate for the executive at the county level and separate for the assembly. If they can afford to give us the cost there is no reason why they should not be able to give us the monies that will go to the county assemblies directly."
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