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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. It is important because it is now, for the first time, that the procedure as outlined in our Constitution has been followed as relates to the Division of Revenue Bill and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. I think that is very good and that we are moving forward in these matters. Of course, there are some administrative financial issues that the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget has referred us to and I think appropriate amendments will be in order. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Bill because of two main statements that have been made. One, I wish to thank the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget for having considered carefully the prayer by Busia County, who have really been taken very badly in the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. What happened is that two constituencies – Teso North and Teso South – were counted as if they were part of Bungoma County and not Busia County. This mistake originated earlier on under the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) by putting those two constituencies as if they were in Bungoma. The mistake is not in the number; the mistake is not that some people were wrongly placed and so on; the mistake is just that they were put in the wrong county rather than in the correct county. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we raised this issue during the last financial year, we were told that it will be corrected. Indeed, as the report says, the CRA actually obtained the certification from the KNBS that, that was a mistake which has to be corrected. Having arrived at that, the CRA then, in turn now, said that we must now correct the figures that have been published. If you read the Report of the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, which I have just had a look at, at the bottom of page 4, they admit that:- “In its sitting of 12th June, 2014, they received this complaint; they were shown the letter from the CRA dated 23rd that pointed out the variance of equitable amount due to Bungoma and Busia Districts as a result of the variation of the 2009 population figures.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the initial population figures had included population data for Teso North and Teso South and these are two constituencies whose population is almost 30 per cent or one third of the entire population of Busia County. They then proceeded to say:- 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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