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    "id": 897128,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "The baseline of Kshs304 billion is grown by an adjustment of only of Kshs5 billion making it Kshs310 according to the recommendation by the national Treasury and adopted the by National Assembly. Therefore, the equitable share to the county government has been recommended in the Bill to be Kshs310 billion. The Bill was tabled in the Senate on the 9th of April, 2019, and thereafter it was committed to the Standing Committee on Financial and Budget pursuant to Standing Order 141 of the Standing Orders of the Senate. The Bill provides for the division pursuant to Article 118 (1) (b) of the Constitution and the Standing Orders 145 of the Standing Orders of the Senate, the Committee in considering the Bill invited various stakeholders both from State organs and also from the non-State actors. In considering the Bill also we were guided by what we recommended in the BPS. Ideally, what the Senate has in the BPS is actually what the Committee together with stakeholders from Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), Institute of Budget Policy, some other Institutions and Council of Governors (CoG). However, apart from the national Treasury, all are in agreement that the revenue must grow in line with the inflation that is in the country and also to certain delivery requirements. From the recommendations by the National Assembly, the Committee observed that the issue of Division of Revenue Bill (2019) as passed by National Assembly, proposes a reduction, as I said earlier, in the equitable share allocation to county governments from Kshs314 billion to Kshs310 billion. The proposal does not take into account the effects of inflation and other factors. Whereas our economy is said to be growing and our revenue projection is growing, the revised revenue projection of this year is about Kshs1.8 trillion. That is a growth of Kshs200 billion in revenue. The projection for the next year is Ksh1.8 trillion plus. This is Kshs200 billion growth in revenue and yet they reduced the allocation to the counties."
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