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    "content": "more careful when they raise points of order. Nevertheless, each one of us here is entitled to their opinion from different perspectives. I agree with most of the things he said. It is important to have a robust and proactive Parliament that can stand up to the Executive because when they do so, they help the Executive to succeed and when the Executive and Parliament succeed, the country succeeds. I will revert back to that issue. First, let me say that this is an important schedule. In the wisdom of Parliament to ensure that the Senate is involved in discussing the disbursement schedule, the mischief was to deal with situations where the Executive may delay disbursements to go to county governments. So, it was important to have a legal document that mandates the national Government to disburse the money accordingly. However, having done so, in practice, that has never been the case because the conversation around this is that you only disburse what you have collected. The excuse given most of the time is that counties cannot be given certain amount of money because the Executive has not received or collected from the people of Kenya. Nevertheless, this gives county governments a better legal standing to demand for their rights. This has been divided into three. The most obvious one, which we need to understand, is the equitable revenue shared to various counties based on the formula provided under the County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA). The second one deals with resources related to conditional allocation to counties and also there are grants. I have no problem with the sharable revenue and conditional grants going to counties because they are properly anchored in law. However, there is one important element that we need to interrogate and most Members have discussed about that. They said that the Committee on Health needs to go further. The first year when leasing of equipment came to be, we were told that counties were going to pay Kshs94,500,000, if I am not wrong, to the person leasing out the equipment. Now, Kshs200 million is being deducted from all the counties regardless of the population and size of a county. A county like mine, which receives about Kshs4.4 billion, has to part with Kshs200 million directly going to pay leasing of medical equipment. After five years, that would be Kshs1 billion, which is enough to buy the equipment and there would be no need for the equipment to be leased or replaced and so forth. Why should Isiolo County with only two constituencies and a county like Lamu pay Kshs200 million the same as Nairobi City County with about 5 million people? It only makes sense that the structure should be such that it can be accountable. Personally I have a lot of fears. A clear interrogation of this issue might bring results that are unpalatable and undesirable and might unearth a con game."
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