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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Under the Transition to the Devolved Governments Act and the Inter-Governmental Relations Act, a function once transferred by this Senate cannot revert to the national Government. So, I would not worry too much about it and I will leave them to continue talking. The only danger about this function which is being clawed back is Article 187(2), which says a function must be followed with funds. From our experience in the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, it appears that this problem is not only in the National Assembly, it is also in the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) when it is allocating funds for hospitals. My own perspective would be that our Committee on Health should give a report on the budget that is sufficient to cater for this function to this Senate that we should adopt. I am sure the Committee is capable of doing so. Its Members are here. When a figure of Kshs3.6 billion allocated by the CRA is reduced to Kshs2.4 billion by the National Assembly without any science to it, we ought to defend those figures. Mr. Speaker, Sir, instead of following this trail by some people who are misled and the law says ignorance of the law is no excuse, we should not follow that path. We should speak to the counties and say that in the next financial year, we want Kshs10 billion on the table. Just like the mediation in this financial year, we should say no money, no division of revenue."
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