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"speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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"content": "Housing, water, agriculture, roads, health et cetera, are all things the national Government continues to pump a lot of funds into. We have the Universal Healthcare experiment due to insufficient consultation with the county governments. The issue of Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) will come to this House. Let no one lie to you that if you gave the National Assembly their CDF, they will give you your oversight fund. We have heard that lie over the last seven years; that “you just pass this Bill and then the Treasury Cabinet Secretary (CS) is going to ensure that your regulations are passed”. I am saying that on the Floor of this House on record and in the HANSARD. The Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) was relevant when we did not have county governments. Now that we have county governments, if you want to build things in the village, go round for governor. If you come to this national Parliament, represent, oversight and legislate. The only thing we should be willing to discuss is an oversight fund for Parliament, not just Senate. The minute we agree that we grant CDF so that we can get our oversight fund, is the day we will be undermining devolution. What is so difficult about providing conditional grants to county governments to build schools? You will find that a school next to governor’s office is dilapidated and the governor can do nothing about, simply because he does not have access to the relevant funds. Let us be united to this matter. The Courts ruled that the matter of CDF must come through the Senate. There must be public participation---"
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