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"speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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"content": "Article 206(2) are the Equalisation Fund and the 15 per cent for counties. Article 203 talks of the priorities to be charged. One of them is the national debt. As a country, we must pay our debt. We must pay for the national interest, including security. Paying for devolved system comes after the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). Finally, in the nine years of devolution, 85 per cent of what we sent to counties in terms of resources was from the equitable share. The question I want to ask is: What happened to the counties’ own sources of revenue? The former Garissa County Council, which later became a Municipal Council, used to collect more than what Garissa County collects today. Muranga County Council used to loan money to the national Government. Today, all the 47 counties are collecting less money than their former county councils and municipal councils. Where is that money going? We must ask ourselves that question. We appropriate and oversee. Our business is to appropriate. We give money and it is our business to follow up and establish whether that money will be given to your brother, your sister, your grandfather, or you will steal it. In fact, this House should ask the Financial Reporting Centre, which is a creation of this House, to tell the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) how much money the governors are holding in their private accounts. We are aware of governors who have Kshs2 billion to Kshs3 billion in their accounts. During elections, we fundraised for them. We paid our money. Today, they have Kshs2 billion in their accounts. Hapana! We will not allow that. Therefore, we must reject this Bill. When we go on recess, we will start the mediation process. The same team that mediated with the Senate last time, led by Hon. Mbadi, Hon. Ichung’wah, Hon. Makali, Hon. Cecily Mbarire and myself, will mediate. We have some institutional memory. We will not change that team. If we have to change, we will pick more hardliners like Hon. Kaluma. He brought a baby to this House yesterday. So, he is no longer our friend."
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