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    "id": 110117,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kosgey",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Industrialization",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 177,
        "legal_name": "Henry Kiprono Kosgey",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to devolve power and resources. We had proposed that for ease of management, the current eight provinces should be turned into regions which would be called “Provincial Assembly” or “Provinces” as they are called in South Africa and Canada. This is contained in the Draft by the Committee of Experts (CoE). Since everybody wants a county, we can have as many counties as recommended in the original CoE’s draft which had 74 counties. That will take care of the devolved system. We should then empower the senate to take care of the regions and the devolved units. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we do not have a provincial or level between the national Government and the county, it will be skewed. How will you move from the national Government up to the county? We have small little units we are calling “counties” which are 47 or 74 as proposed. If there is no middle level, we will have a very weak devolved system that ensures that the same imperial Presidency--- In fact, one of the Articles here says the President can dissolve those units without even giving a reason."
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