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    "id": 385159,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to speak very fast. First, we should not waste time discussing the status of this Upper House. That is obvious. It is like asking whether water is wet. Even lions do not go around saying they are lions. It is other people who see them and know they are lions. Everybody in Kenya knows who we are. The Bill before us is about equitable division of revenue between the national government and the county governments. The operative word is “equitable.” This Bill does not provide for equitable division of revenue between the national and the county governments. It provides for inequitable distribution of revenue between the national and the county governments. The criterion to be considered is set out in Article 203 of the Constitution. That criterion has completely been ignored. The criteria spells clearly that there must be objective analysis of the functions of the national and county governments in the division of revenue. What has happened here is that Treasury itself is what is dividing this revenue. I do remember the late Martin Shikuku telling us that you should never sent hyenas to roast meat for you because they will eat it. Here, we have sent the national government to divide revenue between itself and the county governments and it has eaten the meat on the way. If you read page 309 in this small booklet of the Constitution, the division of functions---"
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