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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Hon. Chairlady, I want to first of all support the further amendment by the hon. Majority Leader and by extension the amendment by hon. Kinyua, my learned friend. In doing so, let me say that unfortunately we are living in what one may want to call a moment of trust deficit. This country is suffering from a trust deficit. It is very difficult to take anything for granted leaving absolutely no doubt as to what you mean. Therefore these definitions will certainly add value to the letter of this law. I just wanted to make one point and that has to do with the two issues that form the core of this amendment and that is the definition of “conditional allocation” and “unconditional allocations”. Just to give a caution, in the wording of Article 202 of the Constitution, these conditional allocations are actually part of the revenue share of the National Government. Just to caution, that this should not be a blank cheque where National Government can use this particular avenue to lend unfair advantage to certain areas, exercising this prerogative of sharing this revenue under the guise of the National Government giving its share to particular areas. For the record, National Government should be guided by the principles set out in Article 203 of the Constitution. On every allocation, whether that allocation is conditional or unconditional, the principle set out and those conditions include ensuring that we deal with economic disparities across the country. Finally, as a House we have been at the forefront and rightly so because we want to be custodians of devolution. We have been at the forefront of protecting sharing of revenue in a manner that is equitable and fair across the counties. The next stage for us to put emphasis on is ensuring that these counties also share in revenue generation so that as much as we want them to share in the revenue that they receive, may we also emphasize that counties take responsibility to share in the generation of this revenue that is then shared. We could end up creating entities that have this mentality, that all they have to do is wait to receive and so that all that we will always do in this House is to sit here and argue on who must get what, when. We need to emphasize that these counties are economic units and in similar manner that they shall share these revenues, so must they also share the burden of generating this revenue. The scales are balanced. Remember we have a watchdog role here. This House, as has already been stated, has three primary responsibilities; to legislate, represent and oversight. I noticed the other day that the Senate is coming up with a committee that will be almost similar to what we call the Public Accounts Committee in this House. For the avoidance and for the record, that committee of the Senate that will seek to oversight the expenditure on public resources in the counties will not take away the primary responsibility of this House to oversight these funds. Therefore the Public Accounts"
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