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    "id": 607123,
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    "speaker_name": "February 26, 2015 SENATE DEBATES 27 Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. I want to tell my fellow Senators that, in fact, this particular Motion is more important than the Revenue Sharing Formula that we have been quarrelling about because under Article 96(3), the question of the determination of revenue between national Government and the county government is contained in this BPS. This is where Senators should put all their efforts because in the division of revenue that we are going to debate, these details are contained here in this document. Therefore, I expect that Senators will come and look into these details because the questions that are affecting this country appear here. In supporting this Motion, we have recommended because the law states that this document should be tabled at the Senate or in Parliament on 15th of February, what they did is to deposit this document on 13th of February. What we did is spend a whole week and in all committees to go for an overnight retreat to put this document together, a result of which we were to study this document under an element of certificate of urgency. I suspect that even the Senators who have left this House have not had the time to interrogate this document, as important as it may be to their counties, not the Revenue Sharing Formula because page 51 of this policy has the figure that the National Treasury has allocated sharable revenue of Ksh 258 billion. The basis upon which they have calculated that money is in this document. The money that is said to have been allocated last year and not factored in the budget has also been put in this document. The Senators need to look at this because when we come to debate this policy, those factors that they have used will come into play. I will use an example that the Chairman has highlighted. They have put in a factor of 10 per cent on page 51, in the division of revenue as the growth factor, yet the analysis we have received from the good officers of the budget of Parliament is that the growth is actually at 15 per cent. Therefore, the figures should be altered to that extent. What about the question of registration of voters? Members do not know that while the National Treasury has allocated the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Kshs3 billion, they have debts of Kshs5 billion arising out of questionable legal fees by advocates. People do not know that the three counties; Kitui, Makueni and Machakos have only managed to register 6,000 people over a period of 14 months. They have no funding to register people at the local level, yet in the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement you will find figures increasing from Kshs3 billion to Kshs10 billion progressively in the next financial year and Kshs15 billion to the next financial, purposely for registration of voters. These are things that the Senators should come to this House and look at. There is an item called witness protection agency, which has been receiving money. We should start questioning who these people are protecting. Where is this money going to and how has it been allocated? The Office of the Attorney General is receiving a huge amount of money, yet the Office of Public Prosecutions, which should be arresting the people who get money from “Chicken-gate” and Good Year, is receiving less allocation. These are things that the Senators should be asking about. Look into the eyes of these people and tell them: “This is wrong.” 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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