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    "id": 510437,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I want to apologise to the PAC for having referred to them previously as being lazy for having not delivered this report to the House previously. I apologised then. This is because I was waiting for this report. They have proved that they are working very hard and have delivered three reports at once for three financial years. We must commend them for the hard work that they have put in to bring these reports. From the executive brief, they have done a good work, but there is a lot of looting in the Government. Our people are suffering from poverty because our resources are being misused and misappropriated. These looters need to be tackled well. They should be taken to where they belong, namely, jails and not anywhere else for looting the resources of this country. I am happy that we will be basing the allocation to the counties on the latest audited accounts for 2012/2013 once we approve this. However, that might not necessarily increase the funds going to the counties. The decision on how funds will be allocated will be based on costing of functions. The counties should come up with the cost of their functions and the national Government should also come up with the cost of its functions, so that it can guide us in making decision in terms of how much money needs to be devolved. Currently, there is the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), which provides some guidelines, which is simply a “cut and paste” on what goes on in the Ministry of Devolution and Planning. This may not be very helpful. The counties and the national Government should come up with the actual figures for us to use when making this critical decision on the division of revenue. I am saddened by what is coming out here, that even our Judiciary is rotten. There is a lot of looting in an institution such as the Judiciary, which we rely on to provide justice. If it is one of those institutions which are being accused of harbouring looters, then this country is not headed in the right direction. The Judiciary should be one of those institutions which work perfectly without any audit queries. No looting should be taking place in such institutions."
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