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    "content": "people for development and not to block them from going back to the people for development. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know if you saw hon. Musyimi on television speaking derogatorily against the Senate. He said: “The Senators must tell us where the money is coming from.” Is it his money? The Senate is not acting in a vacuum. There is a constitutional body called the Commission for Revenue Allocation, which acts on the basis of facts available, for example, how much revenue is collected, how much is shareable, how much will go as conditional grants, how much will be ring- fenced for certain purpose and how much is left at the national Government level. It is not on the basis of hon. Mutava Musyimi. If he continues to besmirch the Senate, we will be constrained to say ugly things about him, for example, how he sat in the Budget and Appropriations Committee of the National Assembly and corruptly allocated money to his constituency and those of the Members of his Committee, against all ethical behaviour and morality. We have not said that, but we are going to be constrained to say it. No wonder the Jubilee Party rejected him in the just concluded nominations. I think he is now running on an amorphous group called the Independents. Even the people he has been ‘breaking his leg’ defending rejected him. That is the kind of person we are dealing with. We are obligated to move this Bill constitutionally. It has come from the ‘lower House’ and this House must consider it. I am privy to the Report, which my distinguished Chairperson will move when he gets the opportunity to contribute. He will inform the House of what the Committee thinks and advises. The irreducible minimum for this House would have been to go by the Treasury proposal, as an irreducible minimum. However, the Committee had a reason for recommending the higher figure of Kshs314 billion. I am perturbed by the warped thinking of the Budget and Appropriations Committee of the National Assembly. Doctors have been on strike and now nurses are also on strike. County governments need additional money to pay them, so that we arrest the suffering of Kenyans who are dying in hospitals for lack of medical attention. Under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya, it is not the national Government that pays doctors and nurses; it is the county governments. The revenues for them to do that must come through this House and our counterpart House through this Bill. I want to agree with the Committee that this House, in its wisdom, should reject this Bill. I know my brother, being the leader of the Government business in the House, is constrained to say things that he does not believe in. I could tell from his body language that he was not even convinced when he was making his contribution. Like Jesus, the spirit was willing, but the body was weak."
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