Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 536918,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/536918/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 236,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Division of Revenue Bill with the amendments proposed by the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, quick provisions of the Constitution, just like my learned colleague, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. had referred to, make it very clear in Article 203 that it must be above 15 per cent of the last audited accounts. The last audited accounts provide for us Kshs776 billion. In the calculation, it comes to 33 per cent. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have said this and I repeat; we must not, as a Senate and as a country, get obsessed with the percentage although the Constitution says that it must be at least 15 per cent. More focus should go to costing of functions; that resources shall facilitate functions being performed by counties. We note, oblivious to the fact that the national Government functions are supposed to be funded, that the national Government functions also support what is being done in the counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, last week, all of us here debated about putting more money and investing in the security sector. Security is a national Government’s function. We cannot rob the national Government of security functions to fund trips of County Executive Committee (CEC) members to Kuala Lumpur and Jerusalem to see where Jesus was born. So, we must always remember that it is important for us to measure--- We, as a Senate, are interested in the money that goes to the national Government and county governments to facilitate counties to function to ensure that the national and county governments perform their functions. Secondly, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is additional money for emergency. In the absence of proper definition of what an “Emergency” is--- The Constitution provides that disaster management is a concurrent function to be performed by both the national and County Governments. There must be a clear mechanism of what amounts to a disaster and an emergency. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are people who have been drinking. You try to educate them to avoid drinking, but they do not stop. If people die as a result of what we would say the law of volenti non-fit injuria ; it is them who have made the decision. We cannot call that an emergency. In law, that is volenti non-fit injuria ."
}