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    "id": 1018008,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1018008/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "In the 11th Parliament, I remember many Members in this House then, were proposing that devolution be done in a model looking like CDF, but there was a lot of noise from the then Chair of Council of Governors, our friend Isaac Ruto. He said these are the agents of anti-devolution. We were saying that because we have tried and the NG-CDF model and it is working, we could have implemented that and avoid the duplication of national Government in to county governments. County governments are very busy forming very big structures having Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries, yet it is not in the Constitution. They are even employing people like chief of staff and all sorts of things. Counties currently are spending over 80 per cent on recurrent and are remaining only with 20 per cent while CDF is only spending 90 per cent on development including money going to mwananchi directly. So, 90 per cent of CDF – this has to go on record – is going to mwananchi directly. What goes to administration and monitoring is only nine per cent to be specific. So, if this country can wake up today and say we want to do reforms, leave alone these reforms, sijui Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) or what, if we want to do real reforms, why do we not reform the structures of county government and we return it to a situation where, at least, 90 per cent goes to mwananchi . That will be meaningful."
}