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    "id": 927664,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/927664/?format=api",
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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": "If the Senate cannot determine, it is the National Assembly to determine the allocation of revenue between the two levels of Government. Then, it speaks volumes to our role as the people who should initiate and, in actual sense, determine how much goes to each level of Government. As we look at the Bill and debate goes on, you have heard many of us being called enemies of devolution. I am surprised that, as we speak about how we are sharing revenue today, nobody is speaking about how that revenue will be raised. We must tell Kenyans the truth that the revenue we seek to share between the two levels of Government will be raised from them in the form of taxes. Therefore, the people who are out there cheering governors and senators as they demonstrate on the streets and call us names like enemies of devolution should know this. When the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning will table the Finance Bill later this year, the same people will call us enemies of the people when we pass proposals to raise revenue through further taxation of Kenyans. Therefore, Kenyans should also be aware that the debate is not as simple as money being shared. It is not just revenue that is coming from somewhere, but revenue that will be raised through taxation of Kenyans. It will be very painful at a time like this when Kenyans are suffering, to subject them to further taxation so as to raise more revenue to share between the two levels of government."
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