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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": " Thank you Hon. Speaker. As I reply, there are just two issues. One issue was mentioned by Hon. Musimba in the purported point of order which was basically debate, but it was augmented by what the Leader of Majority Party and a number of Members have said. Indeed, it is true. As we mentioned during BPS, there is likelihood that the revenue projections that we have on the next financial year may not be realised. However, as we say, they are only projections. We are hopeful and optimistic that, maybe, things will improve. We are hopeful that the Government, through the efforts they have put in under the new CS, Mutahi on the coronavirus pandemic, will bear fruit. I take this opportunity to congratulate the new Cabinet Secretary for Health because he has been very proactive in trying to contain this pandemic. Maybe, its implications in terms of our revenue projections may not be as bad as envisaged, if we manage to contain it. With the long rains expected to begin, the locust menace might go down. In reply to that issue, you realise that we added a sub-clause to Clause 5 that reads: “If the actual revenue raised nationally in the financial year exceeds the projected revenue set out in the schedule, the excess revenue shall accrue to the national Government and may be used to reduce borrowing or pay debts.” Hon. Speaker, as we mentioned, Article 219 of the Constitution protects the county governments in terms of what we appropriate to them under this Division of Revenue Bill. Therefore, it is also important that we also protect the national Government in case there is any excess raised nationally. With that, I beg to reply. 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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