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    "id": 781569,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "I rise to support very important Bill for this country. I do not know if it is possible that before this Bill is enacted, an agreement is made between the two Houses. The Senate can agree early enough that this is the right thing, we also agree and then we pass it. I was here during the last Parliament when the present Leader of the Minority Party spoke very well about this issue of the Division of Revenue Bill. Taxation measures are done in this House. This is where budgets and all the estimates are done. The Finance Bill is passed here, but in the end, the Senate tells you that you must give county government a certain amount when they do not know how much money is available. In spite of an opinion from the Supreme Court being in place, we must come up with mechanisms to agree because this is the House that knows exactly how much money is available and how much can be shared. I think those are supposed to mainly concentrate on sharing of revenue between counties. Counties have been given a lot of money from 2013/2014 Financial Year when it began with Kshs190 billion up to Kshs314 billion in 2018/2019 Financial Year. The million-dollar question that Kenyans are asking themselves is whether the money that is given to counties has been felt on the ground. The essence of devolution was to have a scenario of equitable distribution of resources in our country. The soul of the new Constitution is devolution, but now from Kshs190 billion to Kshs314 billion in this financial year, that money is not being felt on the ground. You can say it is not the amount that they wanted, but it is a lot of money. When you go to many counties, you will find a lot of pending bills. Most of the contractors are suffering in our counties. There are contractors that have not been paid for three financial years and money has been going to the ground. I do not know what the Senators are doing. I thought their Public Accounts Committee should investigate those pending bills. They should hold those counties accountable. The essence of taking money to the counties was to stimulate the economies using the county funds. When funds go there but the contractors are not paid, then the economy of that place will not work. That is why you are seeing over-reliance on the national Government and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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