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    "id": 960682,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to urge the House to reject this proposal from the Senate. We have talked about this matter. We need to be very clear and categorical that even though county governments still need more funds, just like the national Government, we must admit and accept that as a country, we are overstretched. Hon. Lessonet spoke about some figures here. I want to re-emphasise that the projected revenue collection is Kshs1.877 trillion. The amount that is allocated for debt repayment without the debt rollover of Ksh585 billion added to Kshs109 billion for Consolidated Fund Services to pay pensions and constitutional office holders’ salary, added to Kshs261 billion that goes to constitutional commissions, added to Kshs73 billion that goes to Parliament, Judiciary and other independent offices and added to Kshs12 billion that goes to the Contingency Fund and the Equalisation funds comes to Kshs1.41 trillion. That leaves you with only Kshs836 billion. Then take out Ksh340 billion that we are allocating to counties in terms of equitable share and conditional grants. That will leave you with Kshs496 billion. If you total all the recurrent expenditures for all the ministries, you will get almost Kshs700 billion. That means, as a country, we are not able to cover our recurrent expenditure. So, why should we continue to live a lie that there is some money somewhere? I do not understand the rationale. I believe that if counties prudently use Kshs316 billion, we will not have starved counties. 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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