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    "id": 568993,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I just want to take this opportunity, in supporting this allocation, to make a simple statement. There has been an argument that in The Division of Revenue we should give a minimum of 15 per cent of the audited revenues. There are two mistakes here that continue to drag on. First, the audited revenues are two years old. For example, this one is for the 2012/2013 Financial Year. Then we start saying that we have given the county governments 37 percent of the audited revenues. Budgeting at national level, as we had gone through it, is based on current year; current year revenue as projected by the Treasury’s current year expenditures. We are denying the county governments the opportunity to apply the same budgeting system as the national Government is budgeting. This is because of a perceived audit limitation and it is a fallacy . Currently, all we need is audited revenues.The Auditor-General can give us audited revenues within 90 days of the end of any quarter so that the very way we budget for the national Government, we can budget for the county governments.The Auditor-General should submit to the National Assembly the audited revenues not later than 90 days at the end of each quarter. We should be talking about a minimum of 15 per cent of that audited revenues not older than 90 days at the end of a quarter. When the national Government is beginning to submit the Supplementary Estimates after looking at the outstanding revenue, similarly, we should allow the county governments to do Supplementary Estimates, again, based on current audited revenues not older than 90 days. If we are increasing supplementaries because we have collected more money in a particular time, then the county governments similarly should benefit from revised revenue turn out. That is if the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collects more revenues. That way we shall be talking about the current 15 per cent of audited revenues. The limitation that we have been The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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