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    "id": 1065766,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Kiai",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Githiaka Kiai",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as set out in Article 1(1), all the sovereign power belongs to the people and that sovereign power can be exercised through duly elected representatives or by the people themselves. I am not lost to the fact that Article 93 of the Constitution also sets up Parliament and one of its functions is to make laws. Remember Article 1 gives the constituent power to the people of this country. This is where the popular initiative which is christened as BBI comes in. When I look at the intended Bill, I realise that besides saving a constituency like Mukurweini, there are also other good things that come with this Bill. One is setting the minimum sharable revenue between the two sets of Government. At 35 per cent, it means the minimum the county governments can get is 35 per cent. Nothing prevents the Government currently from giving out much more. However, here we are talking about the minimum. Previously, it was 15 per cent but, under the current budget, it will go as high as 28 per cent. Therefore, at the minimum of 35 per cent, we are devolving more money to the grassroots to ensure that those projects that are stalled or starved of funds by the national Government, we now have an opportunity to ensure that there is development at the grassroots."
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