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    "id": 799043,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the Floor to contribute to debate on the County Allocation of Revenue Bill (Senate Bills No.11 of 2018). I begin by thanking the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget, Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud for a job well done. He has done a good job in articulating the issues contained in this Bill. Having said that, there are two things I will mention before I go to the Bill. One, the Senate spends a lot of time and human resource to deal with legislation on the allocation of revenue to counties. It should follow that scrutiny on the use of this revenue should be a natural thing for the Senate to do. County governments must not have issues with Senators when they raise questions on how money they have been allocated is being spent for the benefit of the residents of this country. Secondly, there are three sources of revenue to the counties. There is the equitable share, conditional grants from development partners and a source that for some reason a lot of people are shy about discussing, the county’s own revenue. There are counties in this country that over the years report less and less revenue collected from their sources yet there is Kshs6 billion sharable revenue which counties that progressively report increase in collection of revenue could get two per cent to spur growth. On this Bill, I will begin with the conditional allocations from national revenue. Most of the functions that are listed in the conditional allocations are devolved functions. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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