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    "content": "revised to Kshs288 billion from Kshs302 billion. That is a reduction of Kshs14 billion. That publication caused uproar from all the devolution stakeholders, including the Senate and the Council of Governors (CoG). In fact, the purported deduction from Kshs302 billion to Kshs288 billion was in the public domain about a week ago. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget was also surprised by the details publicized, since at no time did Parliament consider the revision of the Division of Revenue Act, 2017 or the County Allocation of Revenue Act, 2017. The Committee noted the matter and expeditiously called for information from the National Treasury on the matter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the National Treasury appeared before the Committee on Tuesday, 17th July, 2018 and the matter was interrogated. The National Treasury revealed that, that the Gazette Notice No. 6277, dated 29th June was in anticipation that proposals on amendments to the County Allocation of Revenue Act, 2017 and Division of Revenue Act, 2017 sent to the National Assembly and the Senate would be approved. You remember that the national Treasury proposed to amend the County Allocation of Revenue Act, 2017 and Division of Revenue Act, 2017 and those proposals were sent to both Houses and neither the National Assembly nor the Senate took up the matter. Therefore, they said that in anticipation to that one when they were disbursing funds during the month of May this year, they revised the budget. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the national Treasury availed information to the Committee that the actual monies released by 30th June, 2018 was Kshs302 billion as per the Division of Revenue Act, 2017 and County Allocation of Revenue Act, 2017 and not Kshs288 billion. The Committee has seen both the statements of actual revenue and the net Exchequer issues as at 31st of May 2018 that showed the deficiency of Kshs14 billion. The national Treasury published another document in yesterday’s paper titled: “The national Treasury Public Statement on the Status of Disbursement to counties and county governments”. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the last publication of the national Treasury shows that all the monies that are in the County Allocation of Revenue Act, 2017 and the Division of Revenue Act, 2017 were disbursed to the counties. We have confirmed with various counties that the money has been allocated as per the law. We had concerns earlier and took the national Treasury to task to not anticipate anything that has not been passed by Parliament. They are to never repeat that again and the apology was noted. The information that we have for the Senate, is that all the monies that were in the 2017/2018 Budget to the counties were disbursed as of 30th June, 2017. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the document before the House."
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