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    "id": 1106623,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "constituencies. You cannot allow people who are running constituencies to start running counties. How? That cannot happen. I am happy that I have brought Sen. Halake on board and she is with me on this. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, anybody who is a Senator loves devolution. We have sub-county administrators who are employed by county governments to be in charge of our wards at the county level. If you read Article 6 of the Constitution, we have two levels of Government. That is the national Government and county governments. When you go to the sub-county level, we need to agree that in principle, at the ward level, we have sub-county administrators who are the representatives of the county governments. How do you remove them from the administration of this Fund and replace them with assistance county commissioners? That is a big contradiction. If we want to abide by the High Court decision, at the sub-county level, the person who should be key and chair those Committees should be the ward administrator. Let us accept that if we allow the national Government to over-crowd its representation in these Committees, we would have lost it. This will no longer be a function of county governments. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) Committees and fund managers have their distinct roles and functions at the constituency level. There are projects that are funded by the national Government that are under implementation at the constituency level. We are now looking at functions that are under the county government but will be implemented at the ward level. We must separate the two so that we do not bring some new fights between NG-CDF officers and the Equalization Fund. They should be allowed to continue to manage NG-CDF but this Fund should create room for Senators, County Executive Committee (CEC) Members, and people from the villages and leave aside Members of the National Assembly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a minor correction at page 9 of the report that makes reference to Migori being in Gatanga. The last time I checked, Migori County does not have that name. So, Chairperson, you need to ensure that the correction is made. In terms of projects, I hope that when these funds are implemented at the county level, there should be emphasis on our youth and women. I do not like the thing you call bottom up approach. However, I like the concept of devolution because it takes resources to the lowest point. The bottoms up approach means taxing my people in Nyamira and bringing money to Nairobi, which is not a good thing. We want money that is in Nairobi to trickle down to Moraa and Nyang’au who are in Nyamira. I want the boda boda riders in Nyamira to grow in business. We want to register companies for them when this Fund goes down to the ward level, they are the ones who should benefit. We want our women to be the ones doing this project. If you are talking about 360 projects, these are projects that should be the preserve of people who are at the county level, in mashinani. This is so that they engage with business and then they can grow."
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