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    "id": 808676,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "When all is said and done, it is important to compare the responsibilities of this National Assembly and the Senate. The Constitution says that county governments will be given a minimum of 15 per cent of the revenue. We have done very well and gone beyond 15 per cent but we are still not yet even near 50 per cent. Therefore, the National Assembly is obviously going to oversee the difference which is 85 per cent. It is interesting that the Senators felt that it is important for them to have the funds to evaluate and check the governors despite the fact that they know that we also oversee the national Government and we are not facilitated the way they want to be facilitated. The Constitution gives the responsibility of overseeing county governments to the county assemblies. They have a Public Accounts Committee in every single county. They also have departmental committees at the county assemblies who have the responsibility of ensuring that they check what the governors are doing. Already we know governors are being overseen by county assemblies. Now the Senate wants to also oversee and wants to take a huge chunk of PSC budget to do that. That is unfair and we felt that it was 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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