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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to speak on this matter. I will not so much focus on the behaviour of the Members of the National Assembly and chairmen of the various committees in the National Assembly and so on, but I would want them to recognize the place of the Senate in contributing to the Division of Revenue Bill. This is because we, as Senate, are charged with the responsibility of protecting the interests of county governments. There is no better place to protect the interests of county governments than in the Division of Revenue Bill. Therefore, one can say that when it comes to the Division of Revenue Bill, we ought to have a bigger say in how much will be allocated to the county governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether Members of the National Assembly are in the intergovernmental committees where some of these agreements are reached and so on. Therefoare, they must not deviate in a very serious way from what has been arrived at by the Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA). The CRA goes into these matters in a very professional way; in a way of experts and so on, and they make recommendations. If you noted, part of the differences between us in terms of figures and so on, are on those matters where the CRA, for example, had said that county governments should get so much and yet at the end of the day that was reduced considerably and yet there was no adequate explanation which is required under the Constitution for that deviation. You just see a figure there and then they just say that it should be so much, but no adequate explanation is given as to why and why not. There is the issue of free primary education, a very important stage in our education system in this country. This is a stage where the foundation of a child’s education is made. That is the responsibility of the county governments. Both the county governments and the CRA were united in saying that so much should go for that item and yet, it was drastically reduced. Although the Constitution says that there should be adequate explanation for that, there were really no adequate reasons given as to why we had that reduction. Therefore, I would appeal to the committees in the “Lower House” to 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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