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    "id": 959050,
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    "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": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we may continue, I hope the Leader of the Majority Party will not interrupt again. I was saying as I move around the counties and engage with many MCAs, including those from my own county and constituency, many of them will tell you – even this last weekend I was with a few at a fundraising somewhere – they have not received their salaries since the end of June of the last financial year. Therefore, it is not just the healthcare workers and other staff in the counties that have been subjected to a lot of suffering because of lack of disbursement of funds to the counties, but also legislators at the county level. Therefore, the main objective of this Bill is to cure the lacuna that is in the law, that if there is a stalemate on the Division of Revenue Bill, like what was there today – I am happy we have just tabled an amended version of the Division of Revenue Bill this afternoon - hopefully we will pass it tomorrow and our colleagues in the Senate will do the same and allow them to publish the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. In future there are no guarantees that there will be no such disagreements between this and the other House. It is also important to note, and it is something that I did indicate during the mediation committee session this morning, that as much as the public and everybody out there have blamed Parliament for the stalemate that has been there over the Division of Revenue Bill, we must also take blame to the Executive, because the Constitution did create other institutions that would help us to navigate through the question of division of revenue and establish an institution like the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC). In the FY 2018/2019, Members will remember we passed the Division of Revenue Bill and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill in record time, because there was an agreement at IBEC. Therefore, I want to beg that even as we want to blame the other House and they also want to blame us and the public and the Press wants to blame what they see as sibling rivalry, we also take responsibility where it ought to be. The CRA, the CoG and the national Executive The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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