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    "content": "The CRA was not set up in the Constitution in the abstract. It is a critical organ of the Constitution for helping the country to share revenue. Appropriations will follow after the division has been done. The National Assembly did pass the Division of Revenue Bill and forwarded it to this House. This House guided by the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget ably led by the distinguished Senator for Mandera, had an opinion and rightly so, that counties needed to get a little more money than they were given because there was justification to do so. Having amended the Bill that was passed by this House unanimously, then there was as is required mediation. You may recall - and I believe the Senate Majority Leader did hear this - the Chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Budget, Hon. Mutava Musyimi who used to be a Right Reverend, but these days, I call him the Wrong Reverend - he went to the media chastised the Senate and Senators for being childish, irresponsible, lacking in knowledge on how finances are managed and unilaterally increasing money allocated to the counties. I do not know if my brother heard and read what Hon. Musyimi said. Those were his words. They were published in the media that we are childish and irresponsible. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what is left after the National Assembly has unilaterally passed the Appropriation Bill before mediation is an administrative and constitutional responsibility of the President. I urge the Senate Majority Leader to advise, because he has a duty to do so, the President that this matter was before mediation. The Mediation Committee was in place. It was premature and, therefore, unprocedural for the National Assembly to table and pass the Appropriation Bill. This Bill is not founded on the fundamental of revenue allocation passed by both Houses as is required by the law. Consequently, the President should on that and that point alone, return the Bill if it is sent to him and point out that mediation was pending. There is also an amendment that the Senate passed and the mediation report must inform the content of the Appropriation Bill. That way, we shall also hail the President for observing and upholding constitutionalism in the management of the affairs of the country. You may recall two years ago in Brazil, a very charming lady President called Dilma Rousseff was impeached and dismissed not because she stole any money, but because she let a Bill go through Parliament appropriating funds that were not there. She was accused and prosecuted of presenting erroneous financial statements to Parliament as a government. She did not do it, her ministers did that. She took responsibility and she was impeached and she is now at home. I do not want us to go that way. We are going to the elections in any event. When such things happen, I want to ask my brother the Senate Majority Leader that it invokes new soul searching on what exactly must we do to make this Senate a real Senate. We do not have abstract politicians like hon. Mutava Musyimi calling us childish and irresponsible on matters that we have discharged our constitutional responsibility on. We protect and defend counties and their governments. It is in everybody’s interest that the frauds, theft and corruption governors are perpetuating notwithstanding, we collectively believe that counties need more resources for development. Once we are through with jailing all these stealing governors, money will be put to good use and 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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