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"content": "right as Nairobi. On that one, I am glad that with the document coming out on Thursday, Nairobians will have proper devolution. The President spoke about a holistic base of human capital that is food secure which is important. The frontier of this country’s economy is if we focus on value addition. Agriculture which is 33 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is only producing 3 per cent of revenue. This tells you that there is much to be desired. Once we look at the entire value chain of agriculture, if we are serious, we will not have issues of unemployment and giving young people piecemeal donations to give them a livelihood. Throughout the value chain of agriculture that is 33 per cent of our GDP, but 3 per cent of revenue, we will find jobs for our young people. It is not about food security, but manufacturing and making sure value chain entirely creates the base of human capital, jumpstarting the shift from net consumption to net production. Madam Deputy Speaker, as I move to wind up because I am seeing time is not on my side. The 35 per cent revenue to counties, there are many people saying that we are already giving counties more than 35 per cent and that there was no need for that to be in BBI because it talks about the minimum. It is true that in the past we have given counties more than 35 per cent. However, the wording in the Constitution was 35 per cent of the last audited revenue. In 2014, we gave counties 43 per cent because the last audited revenues were 2009/2010. Those numbers have come up. In this year, if it was 35 per cent this year---"
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