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    "id": 897217,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 69,
        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I add my voice to this particular important Bill before this House. I stand to support it with the proposed amendments by the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as many of the speakers have said, the cardinal principle of protecting the interests of the people in our counties and their governments is our mandate that we cannot compromise. Whatever it takes, we must stand to be counted. I must tell you that before I came for this sitting, I had a meeting with the people of Meru County at a function in a place called Kionyo Market in St. Stephen Catholic Church, Kionyo Parish. I had very express instructions from the people of Meru County, especially the St. Stephen Catholic Church, Kionyo. This is the message they gave me. They told me that as I come back to Nairobi because they have been told that I have been called, I should kindly come and say no to the reduction of the money that goes to the counties. So, when I speak here, I speak with full authority from the people that I respect and that gave me the opportunity to represent them in this House. No kind of intimidation, coercion or persuasion will make me change my position. I am happy that the mood of this House from all the Senators that have spoken is so clear that we cannot and shall not allow the variation or deduction of the money that goes to counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the authority was ceded to us by these people. Therefore, we cannot participate in a matter that reduces the amount of money that goes to them when there is a constitutional provision that protects the reduction of emoluments of commissioners of other certain public officers from varying their benefits at the time they are in office. Similarly, we cannot vary amounts of money that goes to counties by virtue of a mere assumption that the national Government has failed in its responsibility to collect more taxes and for that matter enhance and boost the sharable revenue."
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