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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "In the National Assembly we have adopted what is in Article 177. We appoint people, after the elections, to meet the gender requirement. Some people were saying that it will be a big House and that it will be expensive. However, inclusivity, leaving half your team out, can never be expensive. Let us bring all the people in. We can do that and in any case this is something that with time it will actually solve itself. Therefore, Hon. Speaker, I think there are very progressive amendments in this Bill. Look at devolution. Every year we have a big problem with the Division of Revenue. Every year, we have division of money in the counties. Some places have opened up in the counties, but some counties have never operated efficiently because of the amount of money that we give them. So, we stuck to 15 per cent. We sit here in this Assembly looking at only 15 per cent for the counties while for the national Government, at the position of the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), we have all the details of what every department and State department needs. We do not look at what the county needs. We just say, at least, 15 per cent. That is not the way to do any division. Therefore, scaling this up to 35 per cent takes us along way, but that is something we will have to look at. We have to look at the role of the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC) in the division of revenue. I think we have a problem there, but at least this amendment solves that temporarily."
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