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    "id": 719865,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support the Division of Revenue Bill, 2017. My colleagues who have spoken have noted very key points. Let me just repeat one or two. The National Treasury, or the Government, has really tried this time round. There is an increment of Kshs10.8 billion or 0.12 per cent in the sharable revenue for the counties for the next financial year as compared to the sharable revenue for the current financial year. The counties this time will receive Kshs10.8 billion more. The total allocation is 31.12 per cent of the audited accounts of total revenue collected nationally in the last financial year. This is an achievement as compared to the constitutional minimum requirement of 15 per cent. This Bill requires the county governments to plan, budget, spend, account and report on the funds allocated to them independently. My colleagues have talked about this requirement. Previously, we had a problem of governors refusing to give full disclosure of expenditure of the monies remitted to the counties and the revenue collected from within the counties. The county governments are not telling the people that apart from the money they receive from the national Government, they also raise a lot of revenue through levies. The governors have neither disclosed this nor accounted for that money. They have made people to believe that they just rely on the shareable revenue from the national Government yet many counties raise a lot of local revenues that are enough to do a lot of good things for the citizens. It is time the county governments made full disclosures of the revenues they raise locally and account that money. 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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