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"content": " No, he does not want to be informed. He must be on the Floor. Sen. Gloria Orwoba will be the last person to speak on this. For a very few minutes, Senator, you may proceed, so that we move on to the next Order."
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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for considering giving me this opportunity. I want to support Sen. Cherarkey’s Statement on the performance of our athletes. First of all, I was very impressed, and I think this is a clear indication that when we are pushing for affirmative action, you can see some of the results, even in the field of athletics. Some people might not really understand why we celebrate Hellen Obiris's win. The time she used for the marathon was two hours, 22 minutes and 37 seconds. I wonder how long Sen. Cherarkey would take to run that marathon, so that we put it in perspective. Together with Sharon Lokedi and Edna Kiplagat, they did an excellent job. I congratulate them. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a very important message in Sen. Cherarkey’s Statement in terms of calling on Athletics Kenya (AK) to investigate and make sure that we do not have unscrupulous agents in the industry. I thank Sen. Mungatana for clarifying what we witnessed. We call that match-fixing. There is absolutely no way based on what I saw with my own eyes that those Chinese athletes beat Kenyans. There is no way. That was outright match-fixing. We know that the economic times are hard for both the Chinese and Kenyans, but we should not allow this kind of corruption into the field of athletics. We know that in match-fixing, someone is sat down, instructed to agree to not win and they are paid some money. Investigations need to be conducted. If this continues, our athletes are going to ensure that they win the first match; show their prowess and then use the backdoor to negotiate with the Chinese on how they are going to allow them to win a marathon. Madam Temporary Speaker, if the Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Sports and the Arts, Hon. Ababu Namwamba, is listening, the call is very clear. There is some shoddy business going on behind the scenes and he needs to act on it before it is devolved down to our training centers at the grassroots at the county level. We are not known to be discriminative and the Chinese are very industrious. We could be here talking about it, yet there could be a whole operation going on in Nandi County where Sen. Cherarkey comes from. Congratulations to the ladies. Again, the issue of unscrupulous agents has to be dealt with. Match-fixing needs to be talked about and dealt with from the top. I thank you."
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"content": " Thank you, hon. Senators. That is the end of the Statement and debates on the Statements Hour. I will now re-organise the Order Paper and ask the Clerk to call Order No.17."
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"content": "THE NATIONAL RATING BILL (NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BILLS NO.55 OF 2022)"
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"content": " Proceed, Senate Majority Leader."
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"content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to Move - THAT the National Rating Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 55 of 2022) be now read a Second Time. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very important piece of legislation. Amongst the many we have considered as a House, this one particularly, apart The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "from the annual Division of Revenue Bill, where we send funds after the horizontal division between the national and county governments, it seeks to add more to the pots of the counties, so that they can deliver services to the people of Kenya. The National Rating Bill was published in the Kenya Gazette Supplement No.185 of 2022 and passed by the National Assembly on 11th October, 2023. Thereafter, the Bill was referred to the Senate for consideration. The principal object of this Bill is basically to provide a legislative framework for the position of property taxes on land and buildings by county governments pursuant to Article 209(3) (a) of the Constitution. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are many times that this House has discussed, yet I have not seen some Senators raising this issue. In some counties, the Governor post big billboards stating that they have given the people free penalty waivers, free land rates and such, trying to do what you would consider populist politics without knowing that they are denying revenue to develop our counties. It is because of the absence of national legislation that guides how this process is done, that counties are unable to build and back up their revenue sources. This is an opportunity for the county governments to think through. It provides a buoyant source of revenue for county governments. The revenue is necessary to enable each county government to perform its functions as assigned by the county governments. Sen. Mungatana, and other Hon. Senators, I do not know of a county government that meets its Own Source Revenue targets. If, as a House, we do not take deliberate space and time to ensure we guide our county governments by providing national legislation, which will guide how this exercise will be done across the country--- We have tried it in the three terms of devolution from 2013 to 2017, 2017 to 2022 and presently. If we leave it to the talents or lack of the same, of our various county governments to find ways of raising Own Source Revenue, then we know what the results are. We know that there are very few county governments that have grown their Own Source Revenue since the inception of devolution by an equation similar to what economic growth is. Many of them to the utter dismay of colleague Senators and members of the public have their Own Source Revenue sources dipping despite the fact that people continue to pay taxes and land rates. Therefore, as a House we must begin to move in this direction as is provided in this Bill of providing a universal practice that applies across all the 47 counties. Do not leave it to your county governments alone. That is a responsibility we must take up as a Senate with all the zeal and seriousness. In fact, after we are done with this one, it is my sincere hope that as a House we reflect on what the standards are for collecting other forms of taxes on Own Source Revenue. Is there a way to standardise and ensure that there is legislation such as the Bill that is presently before the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget over a unified system of collecting these revenues especially electronically? Madam Temporary Speaker, you can recall that at the inception of this administration, the President stuck to his guns and led the government in insisting that all government services must be paid via the E-Citizen platform, there was all manner of hue and cry. However, somehow many of those noises have since disappeared. Maybe The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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