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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguchy",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before I speak to this Bill, I would like to touch on two areas that most of my colleagues have done. We have reached a stage where, as a country, we need to have a national conference to distinguish the roles of each level of government. Now, we have two levels of government; the national and the county government. The functions spelt out in the Fourth Schedule are very clear to each level of government. The Senate is trying to encroach into the territory of the National Assembly. On the grassroots level, you will find that the county government is trying to go into other areas that are not in their domain, rather than concentrate on their functions. For that, I would recommend that we get together and remind ourselves what each level of government is supposed to do. You realise that the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) was declared unconstitutional for the simple reason that its functions were touching on the two levels of government. The court gave us a year to align it to either level of government. As we go forward, it is important each level of government is familiar with its mandate and knows its limits and territories. With that out of the way, I would like to touch on two areas. We know that this country has been put on the wall map because of athletics. Athletics and sports in general, is a function that is best captured at the county level. Each county has its own talents that it can tap from. I would like to say that for those of us from North Rift, I would like to urge the County Government of Uasin Gishu to put up an Olympic Area where people visiting from outside can access those facilities and pay the county government. Between Eldoret and Iten, there is a farm of around 5,000 acres that belongs to a mzungu farmer called Kruger. If I was the Governor of Uasin Gishu, I would have bought that farm and transformed it into an area where we can have all sports disciplines. We have people training with our athletes there, and some of them, at times, beat us. We want to make that commercial so that when they come to train and live with us, they pay us. The county government should exploit that. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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