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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are back to the ping-pong business. As Hon. Makali said, the Senate and the National Assembly were somewhere in the mediation process. We were at Ksh327 billion. Now, it has given an allocation of Ksh335 billion. That is not realistic. Let the country hear this. Already, we have a fiscal framework that we cannot deviate from. Our revenue projections are known. For the 2019/2020 Financial Year, it is Kshs2.1 trillion. Our total expenditure is projected at Kshs3 trillion. That is a serious figure. We know how much we have allocated to Parliament and the Judiciary. They are independent institutions and you cannot touch their budgets. You cannot touch a penny from the national Government. I tabled here over 543 stalled projects totalling to about Ksh28.9 billion, which we cannot fund. I ask this House to reject this Bill. The notion that counties will be in cash crisis is a fallacy. Article 203(2) of the Constitution gives counties a minimum of 15 per cent. They should budget on the minimum of 15 per cent. If you read Article 206(2), the 15 per cent and the Equalisation Fund are the only two funds that the Controller of Budget does not need to approve. They are directly charged on the Consolidated Fund. So, the idea of telling us that counties will be in a crisis is a fallacy. The Constitution says counties should get a minimum of 15 per cent. As we negotiate the other 15 per cent with the Senators, counties should get the 15 per cent for their salaries and development. That is a direct charge. The two funds that are a direct charge within the realm of 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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