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    "content": "It is expected that Elgeyo-Marakwet will be part of the oil producing and exporting counties. If oil will be found in Keiyo Valley in places like Chepsikot –– and you know it because that is your ancestral land – there is a percentage by law that will remain in Elgeyo-Marakwet County. If the leadership of Elgeyo-Marakwet County works to frustrate that investment, then we will be denying our county revenue that would have been raised and used to better the lives of our people. Therefore, there are other avenues that can raise resources that if counties can innovatively work together with the national Government, we can have enough resources for us to deliver services to our people. Madam Temporary Speaker, we all remember that last year, counties were allocated Kshs302 billion from the national revenue. There is an adjustment growth this year of about 4 per cent so that the proposal in the Division of Revenue Bill is for the counties to get Kshs314 billion. This is not a little amount of money; this is serious money. It is the sweat of the people of Kenya; taxes and revenue that has been raised by poor people in markets, those toiling to buy goods and services; the employees who are earning meagre amounts of money ranging from Kshs30,000 to Kshs40,000 and struggling to raise these resources. These resources must be used adequately. That is why this Senate is saying that it will be futile for us to give Kshs314 billion to counties and then tell the Senate and Senators: “Now, go ye and oversight using your own hands and your personal resources.” In this Kshs314 billion, I can estimate that Elgeyo-Marakwet County will get about Kshs4 billion, which is not a little amount of money. Even when the county councils existed, there was nothing there. That is why this Senate is proposing that as we approve the revenue going to our counties, it is important that it must be followed with the County Oversight Fund (COF) to facilitate Senators to audit counties."
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