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    "id": 958232,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/958232/?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": "As I mentioned, all these conditional allocations plus the shareable revenue including the Kshs6.2 billion for the leasing of medical equipment which has since been reinstated constitute a total figure of Kshs378.4 billion. Even as we speak about the amount of money that is going to the counties, we should bear in mind that it is not just the Kshs316.5 billion shareable revenue, but a total of Kshs378.4 billion, so that Senators hold the governors to account and the Members of the County Assemblies in the county governments know the kind of money they ought to oversee and the money that will be utilised by governors. We agreed in the Mediation Committee on all these figures as I mentioned, namely, the Kshs6.2 billion that had been removed on leasing medical equipment. That was reinstated. We agreed and Senators agreed to step down from their earlier demand of Kshs335 billion to Kshs316.5 billion in terms of shareable revenue. There was also an element under the Water Tower Protection and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Programme that had been allocated Kshs395 million. Something worth noting is that this was not part of the mediation or the items that were subject to mediation. The National Treasury indicated, through a letter, that they have found an additional Kshs495 million. We were able to increase that amount to Kshs880 million shillings from the initial allocated amount of Kshs395 million. It is also worth noting that yesterday as I tabled this Report and the mediated version of the Bill, I noticed that the version of the Bill that was being tabled in the other House had a small element that did not agree with what we had agreed in the Committee. I do not know how. I have never been to the other House, so I do not know how they work, but you know that I have been a stickler to rules and procedures since the 11th Parliament. Therefore, when I noticed that a matter that had been canvassed and agreed on in the Mediation Committee on the item of the commencement date of this Bill had a different commencement date from what was agreed, I contacted the Chairman, who was my Vice-Chair. We could not agree as to his basis of altering the Bill in terms of the commencement date. As I said, being a stickler to rules and procedures, when the matter came up, I have had opportunity to discuss this with a number of the Senators and this is a matter that was raised in the last mediation meeting yesterday morning. I even took liberty to get a copy of the HANSARD. The Committee meeting was covered by the HANSARD. From the printout of the transcribed HANSARD proceedings of yesterday, you will notice some things. I beg to table this because it is important. I will table it at some point. However, I want to point out the point at which the issue was raised. If you may indulge me, I want to read straight from the HANSARD Report that I am holding, Page Seven. The Chairman"
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