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    "id": 1165701,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1165701/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "However, without proper organization of our county governments and relying only on one basket which is the National government, it will not take us places. We may not realize the development we need as a nation. I will be referring to the introduction from time to time and hope that will not input that I am reading my moving of this Bill. The introduction of devolved system of government through the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 was not only a means of ensuring self-determination and participatory governance. It also means to ensure that the decentralized units of governments were able to determine the development agenda for the areas and the people they represent in order to ensure economic, social development throughout the country. The idea of devolving governance to the county level was meant to bring not only governance to the people but also the resources. The moment we bring the resources to the people and it is utilized properly, is when we will realize the agenda for this country. In this country, we are endowed with a lot of natural resources which will be found in almost every county and every geographical region of this country. If you look at the North Eastern, we have animal resources. At one stage I was involved in meat business and most of the meat that we got was coming from Moyale in North Eastern. We also have the camels in that area. In the Coastal region we have coal. Turkana has oil. Muranga has the best source of water. If the natural resource there is nurtured properly, we will have enough to water the whole of Nairobi. The shortage of water in this city will be a thing in the past. The Rift valley is our bread basket and we all know that. Former Central province is where our agriculture is housed. Western and whole of Nyanza we have land and lake where we can nurture the fish farming. We can also nurture the lake transport which by God’s grace is now being developed and has been lagging behind for years. Even if we go by the provincial administration that we had in the past, we have resources in every region. The gist of this Bill is to make sure that any governor who is elected does not sit on his seat waiting for money from the National government. In my view, I believe that there should not be any money left at the National government except that meant to take care of our loans and infrastructure. This is because we need loans to do meaningful development and infrastructure. We have seen a lot of infrastructural development going on in this country. The rest of the money should be devolved to the counties and wards. By doing that we will move from one point to the next. We will develop our country and get rid of poverty. The level of poverty and the disparity between the rich and the poor is sickening. It is sad that some people can have four or five meals in a day, while one part of the nation cannot even have a decent breakfast. Madam Deputy Speaker, this happens because all of us want to rely on the national Government. What will happen if we experience another pandemic like COVID- 19 and the national Government is unable to collect enough taxes? If we continue this way, we will not have meaningful development."
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