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    "id": 437088,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one of the fundamental functions of the Senate is to safeguard the interests of the counties. In my view, whether we take the Kshs226 billion or the Kshs238 billion, there is a fundamental function of this Senate that we will be fulfilling. First of all, let me revisit the matter being referred to us, subsequent to the reference on the opinion of the Supreme Court. The Bill came last year the same way it has come today. The mischief came after the Senate had sat, looked at it and made amendments. The mischief came thereafter. It is good to revisit what the mischief was all about. The Bill came to us with the funds going to counties reading Kshs210 billion. This Senate, in its wisdom, led by the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget and the Committee on Devolved Government, after consulting the national Government on how much the functions to the counties would cost, identified a number of counties – 18 in number - using the formula given by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and discovered that certain functions would not be accomplished. The Senate, through the Committees, again went ahead and worked out how much more money that would cost. That came to Kshs28 billion, if I remember correctly. The counties that had a shortfall were exactly 18. Another issue came up. We identified that there was Kshs28 billion required so that counties do not lack some facilities. The Senate, in its wisdom, identified counties that did not have those facilities which were causing some counties to have deficits. Some counties had no deficit because they had no Level 5 hospitals to run and neither did they have tarmac roads to maintain. Therefore, they did not have deficits. In the wisdom of the Senate, we decided to add some money so that when we used the CRA formula, the counties that had a deficit could run their services and the ones which do not have those services could also start building them. That figure was an extra Kshs20 billion. If you add Kshs28 billion to Kshs20 billion, that comes to Kshs48 billion. That is how we got Kshs48 billion and added it to Kshs210 billion and came up The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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