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    "content": "From the face of it, the Bill that we are discussing this evening is obviously defective. That means that some of us express our support to the Bill with the intention some amendments will be made at the relevant stage. Therefore, I want to join my colleagues and make this very clear, that all of us in this House, support more resources getting to the counties. It would be dishonest to imagine that there is a Senator sitting in this House who wants resources going to the counties reduced. We must be very honest with ourselves. As we talk about figures, for example, Kshs226 billion, Kshs238 billion or Kshs279 billion, the process that should enable us to have factual information as to the amount of money for the counties has not been done. Regarding the costing of functions, it is quite unfortunate that the TA were given resources and should have done costing of functions so that as we debate the Division of Revenue Bill, we should be talking and dealing with actual facts and figures. Right now, Kshs226 billion is an arbitrary figure that was negotiated and we do not have a rationale for it. Again, we do not have factual information as to how the figure of Kshs238 billion was arrived at. Therefore, I hope that this will be the last time this Senate will be discussing the Division of Revenue Bill before we have costing of functions. The other critical and important process is the ongoing process of auditing of assets and liabilities. Some of our counties are spending the amount of resources given to them on acquiring assets, building county offices, building residences for governors and so on. What we know is that some counties have those facilities, but the national Government is still holding on to them. Therefore, we need to finalize the process of auditing and costing of functions. The facilities that were being used by the national Government on functions that have been devolved should be transferred to county governments. That will reduce the amount of resources that may need to go to---"
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