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    "id": 357633,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Bill with very significant comments. First of all, is the allocations made through the constitutional provisions as outlined in Article 203 of the Constitution. I find it difficult to do the comparisons between the national Treasury and the CRA Estimates. This is because we are treated to a table where the CRA Estimates for 2013/2014 are indicated as not available while the 2012/2013 is available. Even though we are saying the explanatory notes from the CRA have not reached the House, I tend to agree with what the national Treasury has explained; if you look at those figures and you upload 14 per cent of each of the items on the cost, it comes to Kshs231.1 billion. This means that either the CRA was incompetent or it did not have the capability to do its own estimates and give us the cost of the functions. The national Treasury has consulted the line Ministries and the Transitional Authority (TA) in arriving at the cost of the items listed, while the CRA, if you go by what they have indicated as Kshs231.1 billion, merely took their estimates for last financial year, Kshs148 billion, and increased it by 14 per cent to get Kshs168.7 billion as the cost of devolved functions. On that score alone, the national Treasury disagrees with TA and agrees more with the governors that they need more money. So, the national Treasury believes the governors believe more money as cost of devolved functions is required. It says that either the CRA did not do any research, or study, to determine what were the devolved functions and the cost of those devolved functions."
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