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    "id": 552828,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to thank you for those kind remarks on the performance of the Members. I also thank your team and the leadership for that effort. I think we have done more in this Session than in the other Sessions. I want to highlight the issue raised on the Division of Revenue Bill. These issues have timelines. So, I want to urge our colleagues in the National Assembly to take the opportunity to stand up with the people of Kenya and pass that Bill expeditiously, so that counties do not get into crisis. There is a thought going on in some of the Executive circles that the national Government will have 50 per cent of the Budget to spend and that the counties will not have money. However, let it be known to all and sundry that the national Government of Kenya will take responsibility if the county governments will not have money. As it happened last year, law or no law, they will to look for money in the interim because it really does not help anyone to deny counties what is rightfully theirs. It is important to note that this Bill was passed after it had been negotiated through a mediation process. It is important that we pass that message to our colleagues that they need to live up to the expectations of Kenyans, as this House has done."
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