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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Mr. Chairman, Sir, the purport of the amendment is that the CRA has already set budget ceilings on recurrent expenditure on the budgets of each county government. Those schedules have already been provided to the county assemblies and the county governments. These are on recurrent expenditure. The purpose of inserting this is to ensure that by the time we pass the County Revenue Allocation Bill to each county, the budgets of the county governments and county assemblies will comply on the recurrent expense with the recommendations made by the CRA. The CRA has calculated the emoluments, allowances and salaries of both the executives and the county assemblies. They have given a figure which is a recommendation. However, the county assemblies and the county executives have entered into a dispute and have not agreed on those ceilings. However, the CRA has assured that the ceilings will ensure that the percentages between the recurrent expenditure and the development expenditure do not eat into one another. There are reports before this Senate which suggest that the recurrent expense of county executives and county assemblies exceed the 30 per cent we have set as a minimum ceiling for development in any county. So, this is an avenue that will ensure that recurrent expense by the executive and the county assemblies will not eat into the development expenditure. You noticed last week that, for instance, the Machakos County Assembly spent almost Kshs1.8 million advertising on a charge sheet against the Deputy Speaker. This is what we are avoiding. That sort of money should not have been available to the Machakos County Assembly and should not have been spent on advertisement as opposed to development. That is the reason we are proposing this amendment. It is with the intention of protecting counties and ensuring that there is prudence under Article 207 so that the county executives and the county assemblies adhere to these ceilings. By the time we sit as the Chairpersons of the County Boards under the new law, we will ensure that these ceilings are adhered to."
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