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    "content": "be fulfilled by any Government, whether they are a carryover or not from the previous governments. There is also the aspect of development and other needs of counties. Now that counties are coming up, do we need to put up the infrastructure for the start of the counties? I want to agree with my colleagues that we need to ensure that our national resources are distributed equally, according to Article 201. The public finance system shall promote an equitable society and in particular revenue raised nationally shall be shared equitably. That is the law in the Public Finance Act and the Constitution that we must, as a House, observe. My colleague said that the Leader of Majority must see sense. I saw sense and I believe in offering solutions. As of right, 349 Members of Parliament must offer leadership. However, the Leader of the Majority Party is the leader of the majority caucus. It must be very clear that I am not the leader of the House. I am the leader of the majority caucus in Parliament. I can offer leadership when it comes to that caucus. That is what we did! I expect the minority caucus leadership to offer leadership. In essence, there is no opposition under a presidential system of government. Today, out of the 47 counties 24 of them are run by the CORD. The Jubilee Coalition forms the minority in those 24 counties. However, if you read Article 95 of the Constitution, it says that Parliament will oversee. Our function in this House is threefold. We represent our people – their interests and desires. Two, we legislate. Lastly, we oversee from the Floor and in our respective committees. The committees are an extension of this House. So, if they fail for one or two reasons because of leadership issues the other alternative is what we are doing. The business of the Kenya National Assembly will be transacted on the Floor. We decided out of good will that we would not follow the Standing Orders, which, in our opinion, were not reviewed in the right way, looking at the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth parliaments. It ought to have been clear that the leader of the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Investments Committee should be from the minority coalition. Now we are asking for one majority. This morning Members said that this Bill has not been subjected to committee scrutiny. The national Estimates were to go to various committees for scrutiny. The relevant departmental committee could have said that the money allocated to the education sector is not enough. Those departmental committees are not in place. If we do not form the committees in the next 15 days, then the whole Budget will come to the Floor and we will be forced to debate it without committee scrutiny. It will go back to the national Government without the scrutiny for the benefit of our people."
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