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    "content": "to account. We cannot be saying that we will not send money to Marsabit County because their credit balance has Kshs10 billion. That Kshs10 billion is sitting in the account because it has to pay contractors who have not met the obligations of meeting the expected demands within the contract. Send them their money and make sure the money is put to good use. Madam Temporary Speaker, I heard Sen. Cheruiyot speak to the issue of local revenue collection. Local revenue collection should not be used as a means or an excuse to deny counties national revenue share because this is their entitlement. The philosophy about local revenue collection is that when you collect more revenue as a county then you have a broader and better opportunity to develop faster than those who do not collect good revenue. While counties are obligated to send the money to the accounts at the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), the money they collect is exclusively theirs. If you collect more, you will pave more roads, provide more water and improve your health facilities. We cannot say that because county (a) is collecting more money as local revenue, therefore, its share of the national cake should diminish. That defeats logic. The share of the national revenues must be given in accordance with the formulae approved by this House and counties be encouraged to collect more revenue. I learnt with a lot of satisfaction recently about the new Governor for Kiambu County. I do not know whether it is true or not that the revenue collection that he has put in place is shifting gears from a collection of Kshs800 million to Kshs2.5 billion. If that is true then that is extremely encouraging. I would want to see that other counties do the same by improving the automation of revenue collection, but more importantly, make sure that this money they collect from individuals in the counties is ploughed back for the benefit of the counties. We want to see good schools, good health centres, water and all the facilities that are required. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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