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    "id": 882390,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "to adopt, so that by the end of this year, all of the 47 county assemblies and the Senate shall be current. Madam Temporary Speaker, if we took that approach, it has financial benefits for our county governments. This is because the Division of Revenue is based on the last audited accounts as adopted by Parliament. It is an illegality for us to be considering Division of Revenue on accounts of Financial Year 2014/2015. It must be on the basis of Financial Year 2017/2018. The Constitution says, “shall within three months”. We expect that the national accounts shall be adopted within three months whether the committee reports back or not. As a result, the basis of revenue share will move from the numbers that the national Treasury wants us to use for Financial Year 2014/2015, and move to the numbers of Financial Year, 2017/2018, which is Kshs2 trillion as opposed to over Kshs1 trillion that we have be using for the Division of Revenue. So, everyone benefits out of this Madam Temporary Speaker, these are some of the issues that when we go for the Legislative Conference we will be sharing. My Committee is also organizing a meeting of Chairpersons of Public Accounts and Investments Committees from all the 47 counties, so that we can look into that. I do hope that, by that time, the Statutory Instruments Act for County Governments will be in place, so that we can also reflect on the role, scrutiny and public participation of statutory instruments, how that can be reinforced and how that can be enhanced to ensure that resources and counties are not pilfered and that there is efficiency in counties. In addition, the three risks to devolution – corruption, incompetence and the national Government – are fairly addressed through primary and subsidiary legislation. I support."
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