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    "id": 909100,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to disclose that the team that was duly appointed by this Senate walked out on the mediation after we discovered that we were dealing with people who do not understand what we were talking about. Madam Temporary Speaker, we were treated to a condescending attitude. We were given nursery lectures about our mandate. Somebody had the audacity to purport that our mandate under the Division of Revenue and Mediation was to look at one small portion of the Schedule, which was county Revenue. They even purported that the Schedule that is in the Division of Revenue had changed and that it was not the correct one. They even gave us lectures about austerity measures, what governors are doing, costing of functions et cetera . Madam Temporary Speaker, we asked the fundamental question under Article 202: Is Kshs314 billion out of a budget of Kshs3 trillion and collections of Kshs1.9 billion equity under Article 202 of the Constitution? Division of Revenue and national Revenue shall be divided equitably. The notion of 15 per cent is not equity. We should not get into that argument about 15 per cent. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are in a constitutional moment. When the national Government through the National Assembly increases the budget of the NIS by Kshs12 billion; net revenue to the national Government by Kshs200 billion and then pretends and purports that by increasing Kshs314 billion to Kshs316 billion, they have done counties a favour, we were not going to sit and listen to such delinquency. An amount of Kshs2 billion is divided among 14 counties and yet a leader of this country proposed this without blinking an eyelid and they were not struck by thunder. They do this and they think they have done you a favour. It is time to say devolution in Kenya is not the stepchild of Kenya; it is a creation of the Constitution. Madam Temporary Speaker, somebody purports that Senators have no mandate in the Division of Revenue to look at the pot where the money is coming from. Then what is the purpose of having a Division of Revenue? It was inferred that it is not our business to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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