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    "id": 957101,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to support the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. First, I would like to bring to the attention of the House on what Sen. M. Kajwang‘ said on the issue of the Roads Bill. I would like to update the House that the Bill failed at the mediation level. So we do not have a Roads Bill. On the issue of the County Allocation of Revenue Bill, the reason as Senators we have been insisting that the allocation to the counties should be increased can now be seen clearly in this Bill. Out of the 47 counties, 13 are getting less than what they got last year. The worst is Mombasa County which is getting Kshs1.2 billion less and a small county like Lamu which is getting Kshs1 billion less, from Kshs3.5 billion to Kshs2.5 billion. It is very bad because the county establishment is still there. The recurrent expenditure will increase because naturally each year the staff expect an increase of their salaries based on their contracts. Even the cost of operations will increase because of the population. Therefore, basically development will have to suffer because of that. When we were fighting for Kshs335 billion, it was supposed to be taking care of all that. However, we are now getting to that. Just to be very clear there are many counties out there like Bomet, Bungoma, Embu all the way to Turkana, including my county, which are getting less by Kshs230 million. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is said that this is because of the on source revenue which the counties are not generating as required. I find that to be very punitive because if a county increased its allocation to Kshs1 million, it may get to Kshs1 billion like last Lamu last time. It loses that Kshs1 billion. We have to check the Third Generation Formula so that we guard against this kind of arbitrary additions which are not objective. I support, but I would like to say that some counties are going to suffer. However, next time we have to make sure that we put down the Division of Revenue so that we do not get to this situation where counties are suffering because the Senate did not play its role."
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