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    "id": 917100,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": "basis for equitable sharing of revenue raised by the national Government between the national Government and county governments and among county governments. The Constitution says that the National Assembly, in their decision to determine what resources should go to the national Government and county governments, must refer to the function of the CRA. I want to disagree with the National Assembly on this particular matter. When we disagree with the Senate on the Division of Revenue Bill, we are not disagreeing with the Senate. We are disagreeing with the commoners, the people who elected us in the villages. When we say that we need to reduce the amount of resources that should go to counties, we are not fighting the Senate. We are fighting our voters. This is a House of debate and I must debate. I must speak my mind. I want to understand the basis on which this House has refused to give counties more resources. I am one of the people who fought for the new Constitution. I took seven years in studying at university for a course that I should have done for four years because I wanted more resources to be taken to my people in the villages. So this House cannot be a House that is deducting resources that should go to commoners in the villages. On this account, I want to understand if the National Assembly, in their process of sharing the resources equitably, is taking into consideration the contribution of the CRA, which is funded by this House. We have given CRA about Kshs600 million this financial year so that they are able to advise this Parliament on how to share equitably Government resources. We cannot have this Commission sit, and when they give us their views we ignore simply because our mandate is to share the resources out. On this one, I want to tell this House to shape up. We need to have more resources going to our people. We fought for devolution. The party I represent in this House is a party that has fought for devolution. We are even saying that in the upcoming referendum, we want more money to be given to counties. We want counties to receive 40 per cent of national resources. We cannot sit here as a House and ignore these facts and reduce allocations to counties and still believe that we are fighting the Senate. I support this Motion but this House must address itself to this matter of the Division of Revenue Bill. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support."
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