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    "id": 1224196,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "This is the larger problem with devolution. We have clearly defined devolved responsibilities, yet resources do not follow those responsibilities. It is our responsibility as the Senate to ensure that counties receive these monies that are required. Secondly, I heard the Senator for Kiambu County speaking and I was not convinced that he has gone through the Bill. I am the Senator for Nairobi City County but I am well versed with village life. There are things in the village that require people who have specific technical skills. I will give examples. If you have a cattle dip in your village and you need a young man who has skills to mix those chemicals properly so that your cows do not die when they all plunge into it, that is someone who needs basic training on that. Sometimes when it rains, the electricity wires trip and you need someone to connect them because you cannot do it. We need young people in the villages to develop such critical skills. I can give you a more critical example because I am a Luhya man. When a posho mill in the village breaks down – Sen. M. Kajwang’ knows what I am talking about – and it is a crisis for the entire village, you have to look for somebody who has basic technical skills to replace the basic components of that posho mill. We can have many examples, including vaccination of animals, artificial insemination and plumbing. Now everyone is putting up a house in shags. Sometimes it becomes difficult when you need these services and they are not there. We need these vocational education and training centres but we should properly fund them. If it is possible, this Senate should define and ring-fence that funding, so that it is not utilized for other things other than what it was meant for. Lastly, because of the resolution of our issue and now that I sit next to Sen. Crystal Asige, in any legislation or policy, I always ask whether issues of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) have been mainstreamed. I want to confirm to Sen. Crystal Asige, as I congratulate Sen. M. Kajwang’, that from the inception of this Bill, you can see a clear intention to make sure that we mainstream in the Bill issues of PWDs. Starting from the broad definition of PWDs, I am not sure I want to say this but I am sure Sen. Crystal Asige is impressed by how broadly the term “PWD” has been defined in Clause 2 of the Bill. If you look at Clause 5(f), the Bill seeks to place a responsibility on the county government to identify trainees with disabilities in the county, undertake an assessment"
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