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    "id": 938074,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/938074/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Chris Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": " Exactly. That is why I am now quoting the Constitution. It is 0.5 per cent of the last audited national revenue. This money is so much. The question is where this money has been going. That is especially because the NG-CDF is 2.5 per cent and it is subdivided among all the 290 constituencies. You will see an NG-CDF project wherever you go in this country. It is the only Fund whose effects are felt across the country. If you go to any village in the country, or Hon. Kamket’s constituency, or Turkana County, or Lamu County, you will see NG-CDF projects. The NG-CDF is a very good model. I also note that the model that Hon. Kamket has proposed has been borrowed from the NG-CDF. My humble request is that we borrow this model from the NG-CDF because it has been tested. It has stood the test of time and it has gone everywhere. It will help if we go that way. But the big challenge, the elephant in the room, is this: When it comes to the Division of Revenue Bill, it divides revenue vertically between the two levels of government. We had a problem with CDF and we had to amend the CDF Act to be part of the national Government revenue share. That is why it was called the NG-CDF. When it comes to the Equalisation Fund, how are you going to treat it? Is it going to come under the horizontal sharing or is it going to be under the vertical sharing? These are the issues we must be able to look into as we move on so that the courts do not mess us up."
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