{"id":110745,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/110745/?format=json","text_counter":435,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o","speaker_title":"The Minister for Medical Services","speaker":{"id":193,"legal_name":"Peter Anyang' Nyong'o","slug":"peter-nyongo"},"content":"I remember Mwai Kibaki, then the Parliamentary Secretary for Economic Planning, was at Alliance High School and a Form Three student asked him: “Mr. Parliamentary Secretary, you KANU people were in London and negotiated for the new Constitution and you brought us the Majimbo Constitution. Since we know that KANU was opposed to the Majimbo Constitution, what are you going to do about it?”. I remember very clearly he told us in no uncertain terms, “we shall break it”. They did break it, by denying them resources. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us not cheat ourselves that when we have devolved governments, they will be just a burden to the Central Government. Devolved governments are a stimulus for development because there are all kinds of resources lying idle, which the Central Government does not know about. The Central Government, for example, does not know the potentiality of Sokony’ong’o in Thata where I live. But the devolved government will know the potentiality of Sokony’ong’o in Thata as a source of good water which can also be bottled. This is the kind of development we are giving as a challenge to devolved units. Let us have devolution. With those remarks, I beg to support."}