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    "id": 1066265,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1066265/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "need to argue intelligently together. We need to consult each other intelligently and see which is the best way for Kenyans to move forward. One of the things that I need to say is that Clause 3 has inserted Article 114 on Economy and Shared Prosperity. One of the nagging problems is that there are two levels of government the National Government and the county government. However, the sharing of those resources hitherto has been confined to about 15 percent. This proposal in the BBI clearly states out that this is no longer going to be day to day business. What will happen is that every county when it comes to sharable revenue, they will be able to get 35 percent and it is being anchored in the Constitution of Kenya. This is a good thing. We cannot say it is bad. Nobody is going to deny the counties to get the 35 percent sharable revenue that they have been denied for the last 10 years. When it gets to that level, it will be a good thing. When it comes to the question of devolving the resources to the ward level, again in this proposal by the BBI, they have quite cleverly argued that we can be able to create what you call a county assembly fund which will be able to help in the area of devolution because at the moment some of the governors - not all the governors - do not give resources to the county assembly to function independently. I think in this BBI, there is a moment for us to be able to create a fund for the county assemblies so that the county executives can be able to share those resources with the county assembly and the county assembly will be in a position to oversight the county executive. The county assemblies will also be able to oversight the county executives on the funds and resources that have been appropriated to them through the Division of Revenue and the County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA) process, which is a good thing."
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