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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": "we are not careful, some of those counties may have challenges in future. That is why some of us were supporting BBI because it was going to increase the allocation from 15 per cent to 35 per cent and some of these counties which have financial challenges would be able to survive. However, now without it, we are going to have problems. For those of us who support BBI, we mean well for devolution in this country. But people like my good friend here, Nominee 001, do not support devolution. They talk about devolution but when it comes to matters of strengthening devolution, they are not there to talk about it. One of the other things that I found very critical in BBI is the issue of giving powers to the Senate to oversee own-source revenue. Own-source revenue is a problem. The counties we have cannot even raise 90 per cent of what local authorities were raising and yet, local authorities did not have enough manpower and resources to raise money. However, the counties have not been able to raise that money. They wholly depend on the allocation from the national Government. I think it is very important that the Senate has a role to play in terms of overseeing the own-source revenue so that counties are able to generate enough local revenue to sustain some of the programmes, instead of waiting like beggars for the national Government to send money to them. I think this is one area that I fully support as one of the proposals in BBI. I am now saying that those who do not support BBI are not for devolution in this country and that those who support BBI are supporters of devolution in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support."
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