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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I just make a brief comment. I wish to tell my colleagues that even as we try to hurry this through, it is very important for us to realise the implication of this matter and what we must do as a House thereof. What will happen is that the Commission of Revenue Allocation (CRA) will bring recommendations here which we have already discussed in the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. However, it is good to realise that we have to engage the county assemblies as well because the County Assembly Service Boards (CASBs) are the equivalent of our Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) and they have got their own views about how they ought to be handling those issues. Secondly, we have seen expenditure that we need to discuss, not just for the county assemblies and governments, but also for the entire government as a whole. For instance, there is the issue of funeral announcements. When you look at the newspapers, you will see funeral announcements of employees of county assemblies from all over the country. The question that arises even in Government Ministries is: who will we allow a funeral announcement to be made in respect of the ranking of the county assembly employees and where do you stop? It is county expenditure and they have got a full page, for example, advertisement for a funeral announcement. That costs about Kshs500,000. These are very fundamental and serious issues that we need to engage in even as we pass this amendment."
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