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    "id": 926460,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/926460/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 157,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "Since President Uhuru Kenyatta came to power, we have been allocating counties more than 30 per cent of the audited revenue. That is double. So, let those who have gone to the Supreme Court tell us the law we have broken. We have surpassed the constitutionally prescribed 15 per cent. There is no constitutional requirement that we have breached. The national Executive cut its budget last year because of the low revenue collection. We lost Kshs2 billion from the National Government Constituencies Development Fund. The National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) lost close to Kshs300 million. The Judiciary also took a cut. But because Article 219 of the Constitution makes it mandatory that whatever we allocate the counties cannot be returned, why should we allocate money that the Government does not have to counties? Hon. Junet says that they steal. That is a story I will give him a chance to tell us later. We never cut any money from them. Instead, we lost Kshs2 billion of National Government Constituencies Development Fund, the NGAAF and the Judiciary also lost money and the Ministries took cuts."
}