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    "id": 743064,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to add my voice to this debate on the Division of Revenue Bill. It is regrettable that just days before we adjourn permanently, we do not have the division of revenue or allocation of money to counties for the next financial year. The reason is because the Division of Revenue Bill that we passed here was rejected by the National Assembly. The same assembly went ahead and published a new Bill. The bone of contention was not on conditional grants but on the equitable share of revenue. So, the National Assembly published the Bill with same Kshs291 billion that we had rejected. So, our Committee, in the report that has been tabled in the House a short while ago, had three options to look at. One is to accept what is contained in the Bill as it is. The other one is to amend. The third option that was placed before us by the experts from the budget office was to reject the Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we rejected the first option of accepting the Bill as it is based on the previous arguments we had; that there has been a consistent trend in the growth of revenue allocated to the county governments. This was based on the annual growth of revenue of the Government. So, a certain percentage which is a three years’ average growth of the annual revenue has always been used by the CRA to recommend an increase. This Kshs291 billion is not based on that, neither is it based on even the growth of annual inflation. The annual inflation growth was 6 per cent last year. The amount that they proposed to increase, from Kshs280 billion to Kshs291 billion is only just over 3 per cent."
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