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    "id": 926457,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/926457/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "The introduction of the Division of Revenue Bill in Parliament is the culmination of a process that usually starts at the end of August. We are about to go to the month of August now. We will start the budget process of Financial Year 2020/2021 in August next year, which is in about 10 days’ time. It is very sad because we are dealing with the Division of Revenue Bill today, few days to the next year’s budget cycle. It is very unfortunate, and this has never happened. I am sure that our colleagues, the Council of Governors, the Senators and the National Assembly will look into this issue. In October last year, the Executive finalised the Budget Review and Outlook Paper, which I laid on the Table of this House. This was submitted to both Houses: The National Assembly and the Senate. That document, which was tabled in both Houses, has interim numbers. The numbers are not something you go to the market and get. That document from the National Treasury, which was tabled here in October, last year, had interim numbers to work on. We must tell the country how the budget-making process architecture has been documented in the Constitution. That document, which had interim numbers, was the first document which was to guide the budget-making process for the Financial Year 2019/2020. It was to guide the sectoral reviews, Parliament, Judiciary and how the division of revenue would be arrived at. That document, which had interim numbers, was the vertical division. It showed how we would divide the resources of this nation vertically between the two levels of Government. This is what we have said many times. This is what Hon. Mbadi said on television. In my community, there is a fable to the effect that a hyena started talking to a stone, but realised that the stone was not responding. The hyena told the stone that although it had not responded, it had heard him. Let us say it 100 times: vertical division of revenue between the two levels of Government as stipulated in Article 96 of the Constitution, notwithstanding the opinion given by the Supreme Court, is a function of the National Assembly. It says the National Assembly represents the people of Kenya and the National Assembly determines the allocation of the national revenue between the levels of Government as provided in Part 4 of Chapter 12. Unless that Article is amended, the National Assembly deals with the vertical division. It is improper, immoral and wrong to subject the Division of Revenue Bill to a mediation process. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}