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    "content": "Kshs24 billion. This is part of the response to one of the questions that Sen. Hassan had asked; why the amount for last year and this year are not reconcilable? It is because the amounts provided for in this year’s Division of Revenue Bill will be Kshs45 billion and not the Kshs30 billion we had last year, specifically for the new structures. Mr. Speaker, Sir, one of our recommendations is that county governments should establish conflict resolution mechanisms and desist from encroaching on each other’s constitutional mandate. Conflicts regarding fiscal and budgetary process should be settled in terms of Article 189 of the Constitution of Kenya by way of alternative dispute resolution mechanism. In this regard, this includes reference of disputes to the Senate which has the mandate to serve and to protect the interest of counties and their governments. We have already discussed with the County Assemblies Forum that, in future, it will be a good opportunity for them if anything similar to this comes up that they discuss with the Senate before going to court. Lastly, it is the mandate of the Senate to protect county assemblies so that they can carry out their mandate or role in oversighting the county executive and also ensure that they are not compromised. In our fifth recommendation, we have said that funds requisitioned by assemblies should be released directly into the operational accounts and it is a matter that I said earlier we are enforcing. That is the brief response. I will see what other question will be raised on the same. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, the actual appropriated accounts; the budgets which were approved by the county assemblies were a total of Kshs26 billion last year. The amounts that were approved by CRA in the ceilings was Kshs17 billion. At that time, the intention of the CRA was that the Kshs9 billion would rather be used for service provision and for development. However, as I said, those numbers have been significantly reviewed for most of the counties that had the opportunity to sit with them."
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