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    "content": "(3) A national state organ shall ensure reasonable access to its services in all parts of the Republic, so far as it is appropriate to do so having regard to the nature of the service.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in formulating the division of the national Budget, it is important that we put this particular Article in mind; that the county governments have to be consultative. It is not just a formality that they make their county budgets and bring them to the Treasury and then the Treasury ignores them and goes ahead and shares the revenue as they please. It is important that they are seriously consulted in terms of formulation of this Budget and the division of revenue. This is provided for in Article 6. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Article 186 which a colleague earlier referred to, sets out the functions of these two governments, that is, in the Fourth Schedule. When you compare the functions that have been set aside to be performed by the county governments vis-à-vis the functions that are supposed to be performed by the national Government, the difference is very small. The county governments have as many functions as the national Government. Therefore, I want to agree with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale who said here at one time that he believes that it should either be 50/50 or if anything, then the county governments should end up with a bigger chunk of this Budget than the national Government. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very disturbing to see, for example, the Ministry of Agriculture, when revenue is given to it, the head office in Nairobi getting the bulk of the money allocated to it, yet we know that--- At the national level we expect, the Cabinet Secretary to have one floor with his staff for the purposes of formulation of the Ministry policy. Otherwise, the bulk of the money should go to the county governments that offer real services to the people. This goes for many other Ministries. Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o has just taken us through the Ministry of Health and their allocations. The national government remains only with Kenyatta National Hospital and probably Moi Referral Hospital. Most of the other health facilities, be they clinics, dispensaries or health centres, will be under the county governments. Therefore, the bulk of the allocation to this particular Ministry should be directed to the county governments rather than the Ministry headquarters. I am looking at this Division of Revenue Bill and it is mind-boggling to me to see the amount of money that is being allocated to the National Intelligence Service (NIS). I know the security of the country is paramount and I know that it is important that we invest in our security but what justification is there to allocate Kshs80 billion to NIS and yet this is the same institution that has failed us completely. They cannot detect---"
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