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"content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. My names are Abdikadir Aden. I rise to support this Bill and I must say that my support comes with the recommendations proposed by the Leader of the Majority Party. There are a number of things; when looking at this document, which I think should have been very appropriate if we put it under the microscope in a Committee--- I would like to join my colleagues in emphasizing that this would have probably been dealt with a lot more effectively under a Committee of Budget, which would have queried some of these issues further. The increase that was just made by the Leader of Majority Party raised the unconditional allocations from Kshs198 billion to Kshs206.6 billion; this is about 33.97 per cent of the last audited revenue; it is a move closer to reality. The increase to county government equitable share from Kshs154 billion to Kshs175 billion, further raises the percentage from 25.5 per cent to 28.8 per cent. I think those are some of the recommendations that he has made; even though not good enough they are going to move us in the right direction. I want to very quickly point out one or two things. The first one is that as hon. Ngâongo said, under the conditional allocation to counties, which is Kshs43.9 billion, I think it would be very important if this house got to understand in details, what exactly the itemized portions of Kshs43.9 billion are. Without those details, it becomes very difficult. It is just a number that has to be put there, but we do not know what portions the counties will be benefiting from. Without those details, these are just numbers. It becomes very difficult. It is just a number that has to be there and we do not know what counties and in what proportions they will be benefitting from this."
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