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    "content": "Why would we allocate money for incentives for people to collect more revenue, when we have stated under the Constitution that people must be accountable? Counties must collect revenue and we have given them the formula. Why should we give them further allocation? The revenue sharing formula that Members have shot down this afternoon, has proposed one per cent for fiscal responsibility, which includes rewarding counties for what is called prudent accounting systems. This BPS has got something that will help you to look at it and assess whether or not we are planning our money well. That is our responsibility. I want to talk about the Equalisation Fund. For those counties which have been worked up about money – that they have not been included properly in revenue sharing – this is an opportunity for them to say: “This financial year – irrespective of the fact that the revenue sharing formula has been shot down – the money that has been allocated here is Kshs6 billion. Everybody asks: “Why is it that the Equalisation Fund has not been put in place?” There are regulations that are supposed to be under Article 204. We rejected the regulations that were brought to the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. One of the reasons is: Why would you set up a board to manage the Equalisation Fund and their management kitty is 10 per cent? If it is Kshs3.4 billion for the 14 counties, it had been suggested that they should each be given Kshs340 million. If it is Kshs6 billion in this financial year, they should be given Kshs600 million for management. This is an opportunity to say that they must fast-track the Equalisation Fund, so that the counties that think that they are suffering or have been given the benefit or privilege to enjoy the Equalisation Fund for 20 years under this Constitution, are given that opportunity. That is the work of Senators. I want to thank the Committees that presented their reports. As I second this Motion, I am very happy, as a Senator, that, truly, that Article 96 (3) is working. I beg to second this Motion and ask my fellow Senators to look at these documents in great detail, because the devil is in all these details, in all these books. Take time to read them because this is where the rubber meets the road."
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