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    "id": 920352,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Zani for this wonderful amendment. It is about time. I entirely agree that as devolution grows, there are so many laws that we will come up with to ensure that we become effective and efficient so that devolution works for all Kenyans. We agree that as we go along, the Constitution gave us the structure and the design. Therefore, it is up to us to ensure that we put in place the necessary legislative proposals to ensure that we move forward. Madam Temporary Speaker, I agree that own-source revenue has been one of the biggest challenges among counties. You find that some counties are either collecting money manually and some of them have systems that are exposed or prone to cyber- attacks; while others are prone manipulation or fraud. Therefore, it is important to have a national legislation that will ensure that county assemblies have legislative guidance as they collect their own-source revenue. This is because they are the main people who come up with the laws that are used in the county governments. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you look at Chapter 12 on the principles of finance, one of the key issues that has been captured is to ensure that the money has been used in an open, transparent and prudent way. As custodians and protectors of devolution, we have an obligation to protect the interests of counties by ensuring that revenues raised locally by counties are used for intended purposes. We have an issue with the division of revenue, and the Senate has not changed its position. We still insist that more money from sharable revenue is allocated to the people in the 47 county governments. Members of the National Assembly insist that counties should get Kshs310 billion but we, as the Senate, want counties to get Kshs327 billion from the sharable revenue. No one is talking about conditional grants or own-source revenue."
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