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    "id": 110623,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to interrogate this document in an honest way. I want to say that I support devolution, like the hon. Member who has spoken before me. It will be cowardly for us not to devolve and, yet, one of the key issues that we told the country when we were coming up with the Constitution was that we want real power and resource devolution. In the current situation in the proposal that we have, we have gone from the national stage to the counties. If you look at the duties that have been given to the counties and the duties that were given by the Harmonized Draft that had a regional government, they are exactly the same. So, where did the roles and duties of the regional governments go? Whatever we call it, for me, “regional” does not have to be used; “Majimbo:” does not have to be used; but you need somebody to co-ordinate the units that are below. Otherwise, if we are going to have direct supervision from the national Government, then we are, again, back to the same old story because it will be the same county councils direct to the national Government! It is going to be worse now because we have moved the House of Representatives, which is this House, away from the resources that are going to the counties and given the powers to the Senate. Without forums for the Senators and the policy makers to actually co-ordinate and guide the development of a region--- Call it a region; call it a province--- Maybe, when you call it a province, it is better. If you do not have a unit to co-ordinate, it will be very careless of us to actually agree that you can have a school that is run by the headteacher and the students without the prefects and the teachers in the middle. It is going to be very, very sad!"
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