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    "id": 955890,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13239,
        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
        "slug": "janet-marania-teyiaa"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support the Bill. Three minutes is a short time. I have three issues. One, it is time we let the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to be the sole revenue collector in the country because there is a lot of unaccounted revenue being collected at the country level. What we are seeing is the KRA tightening its belt. Therefore, as the National Assembly, we should prepare a Bill to authorise the KRA to be collecting revenue all over, then it is disbursed to the counties through the County Revenue Allocation Bill. Second, I support the Senate on the need to review the County Allocation Formula given by Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). After the census results are out, now that it considers population, poverty index and a counties land size, there will be need to review the formula. It is long overdue. Some of the counties are not getting their fair share. So, on this, I support the Senate. The Big Four Agenda is mainly on devolved functions like food security, universal health care, housing and manufacturing. If you see the conditional allocation to counties, most of it is on health and housing. Because of the youth polytechnics, we are now moving to be a technical skills competency country. Therefore, if we revive our polytechnics using these conditional grants, together with the Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions (TVETs), from the national Government, we will have a lot of personnel with technical skills that are required in moving our country to the next level to be a middle income country. Therefore, the conditional grants should be used properly. We can use the conditional grants to Level 5 hospitals and foregone health user fees through National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). It is high time we stopped going abroad for treatment and build good hospitals in this country. Since it is a devolved function, we should support it by allocating more money through the Conditional Revenue Allocation. Still on the conditional grants, on roads, which are also given as a conditional grant, it is important that counties repair those roads for purposes of services and products. For example, in the agricultural sector, food will reach the market and that will improve the economy of our counties…"
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