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    "content": "have been saying that provincial governments are majimbos and they want to associate regional governance with exclusivity of communities from certain regions. This is pure propaganda and has got nothing to do with what we have been talking about since Bomas of Kenya. Unless you intend to retain the supervision of these devolved units by the Central Government and therefore retain the Minister for Local Government and Cap.265 to actually oversee the counties, then I do not know which other institution can ensure that they can provide capacity building over these counties because they are so many. Today, we are proposing to increase them to 80 from 47. There are proposals to that effect. That, in itself means that we will be having so many centres that we are sending millions of money to with no capacity even to utilize it. Then we shall be jailing these fellows and disbanding these counties. I am proposing that we have a provincial supervisory structure that will ensure that there is a representation at that level. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker Sir, this is not far-fetched. It is practiced all over the world. This type of system that we want to install in Kenya without these levels, is unknown. It is not working anywhere else. We intend to copy it from certain places like the United States of America (USA) and Nigeria. I am aware that Kenyans wanted one centre of power. Then we can go the South African model where there is one centre of power but there is devolution. I am a little bit worried about certain sections in this Draft Constitution, which in my view, will mitigate against its passage when we go to the referendum. For example, in the Bill of Rights, this Constitution does not include land as property to be protected by the Bill of Rights. It excludes under Article 40. I will show you that, although that debate is for tomorrow. What do we want to achieve in this? It even tells us that they will start implementing--- Parliament must put in place a law to determine the minimum and maximum land holding. I do not know why we should bring such issues to the Constitution. There are certain things that are in this Constitution that ought to go to ordinary legislation. If we had enough time, we should polish this document and give Kenyans something that is good and that can be passed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have even seen the number of amendments that are being proposed and yet we are being told to pass it as it is. This is hypocrisy. I think the mistake we made was when we accepted rushed constitutional amendments from Serena. They were pushed down our throats from the Serena Committee and we decided to put in our Constitution Section 47(2). I am sure Mr. M. Kilonzo is not comfortable about that but I will blame him for every other mess that may come because of the laws that we passed in a hurry. This country has a history of ---"
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