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    "id": 1077349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I mentioned that much as these functions have been devolved, the county governments cannot act and work in isolation. Governments are interdependent because some functions have been assigned, yet the policy issues have been retained at the centre. It is the kind of thing we should be integrating and looking at, where can we get maximum economies of scale by, perhaps, even helping some of those counties. I want us to look at the County of Nairobi. The County of Nairobi was devolved, it is right in the centre, it is very developed according to the analysis by some people, but we have seen failure by the devolved government to even clean up Nairobi. You can see what has happened within the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS). It is so clear: It is like day and night in terms of what Major General Mohammed Abdalla Badi has been doing in Nairobi at low cost to make Nairobi a better place. We wish all counties had somebody like General Badi. We wish they had a metropolitan service. Then, our people would not be suffering. We would not be conducting The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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