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    "id": 926542,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Therefore, I want to agree with what the Member for Funyula was saying. Lastly, Article 203(1)(d) of the Constitution speaks as to what the Commission for Revenue Allocation should be doing. I think this is where CRA is failing this country in terms of being able to determine the cost of functions. Article 203(1) (d) says that in determining what amount should be allocated to which level of Government, we should look at the need to ensure that county governments are able to perform the functions allocated to them. That is where CRA has a role to cost the functions of the county governments so as to determine the figures on that basis. Hon. Speaker, I want to thank you as the Chair of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) because I can confirm to the country that, indeed, other than Parliament there is no other agency, Ministry or organ of Government that has costed its functions. It is only Parliament that can tell you how much it costs to run this House or even indeed to keep a single Member of Parliament or a Senator in the House every year. That is what CRA should be doing to tell us how much it costs to deliver water to each household per county and how much it costs to deliver healthcare to each household or to each individual in a particular county so that they advise, as we have been told by Hon. Junet, to make recommendations on how much should go to the counties based on functions that are costed."
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