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    "id": 480702,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 431,
        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I think that as much as Kenyans are quite irked by the kind of spending at the county level, we must rationalize this gag on account of what the counties are allocated. I have made this pertinent point every time we discuss revenue and that is why for the first time and future times, I will register a no vote. As you are discussing about capping revenues, the Mombasa County still gets much less allocation than its wage bill. We have a wage bill of Kshs4.7 billion and we Kshs4.5 billion based on the CRA formula. Then this whole debate is a futility. How do you gag what does not even meet the threshold to even pay salaries? When you are doing this, you should not react to your counties where, for example, you have Kshs4 billion to Kshs5 billion after you have removed a wage bill of Kshs6 billion. There are those counties that have a deficit even going into the wage bill itself based on the kind of personnel we have received from the county governments or from the national governments. Therefore, we have only one avenue; either we rationalize the staff or we sack everybody, but do not micromanage the county assemblies just because it has the quality of people that you do not like or appreciate, and therefore, we get this populist kind of view. You need to rationalize this from county to county. I am here to say that this is not the kind of way we want to move forward. We should ensure that as we go into 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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