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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I support it with amendments. There was a proposal to reduce some money from counties in the last financial year. The fact is that the national Treasury has not revised the revenue collection estimates. Why are we reducing money to counties yet even if you were to buy their argument that they are underperforming in terms of collection, even their estimates according to the BBs that we looked at in February, they still showed that it is Kshs1.6 trillion in terms of revenue generation for this country. We are now speaking about referendum and the need to change the Constitution to accommodate more people at the national level. I think we are missing the point because money going to the counties is doing much better than the amount of money that is retained at the national Government. Therefore, we should increase the allocation for counties to 50 per cent. Whatever function that we devolve, there should be no remnant in the national Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is estimated that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow to 6.3 per cent this year. That same GDP is what we use to borrow. It is the same that we are benchmarking in terms of how much we borrow. So, the risks are many and it is time, whether in this or the other House, Parliament determined borrowing. If it does not, I tell you we will sell all our assets until we have nothing more to sell."
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