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    "id": 1127001,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1127001/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": "We acknowledge the national Government as guarantor of loans, but I ask myself whether we need the same guarantor for grants. In this Bill, the national Government has been put at the centre of every transaction that will come out of it. I know the national Government would want to superintend the functions of the counties probably under the spirit of complementarity or under the spirit of intra-governmental coordination and stuff like that. But this takes away powers of county governments from running their activities prudently without external interference by the national Government. The genesis or the main idea behind coming up with devolution was to cut out certain interferences that have permeated systems for too long, but we are taking ourselves back to the same national Government that has frustrated our efforts. For that, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I decline to offer my support to this Bill. Thank you."
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