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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Gataya Mo Fire",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill on revenue allocation, considering the fact that these are some of the fundamentals as to why we are here as a Senate. That is our core responsibility; to make sure that we devolve resources to our mother counties across the country. The inception of devolution created a viable environment for our locals downstream. It is therefore important that as we debate, we urgently consider the fact that devolution created a way of life. We decentralized services to our counties, thus creating quite a number of significant developments across the board. If I were to make some arguments, I would say that devolution was incepted without some levels of preparedness. I happened to have served in the counties for close to 10 years. There are some functions that were devolved because the old system was not prepared. For example, if you look at the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, quite a number of counties are struggling. Those two Ministries form the backbone of a number of activities in counties. I do not know for what reason the national Government decided to have little resources devoted to the counties. That is stifling and crippling the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development especially in the counties. In that respect, I do not know whether we are supposed to move and create a policy through which we are supposed either to advise the national Government to retract that decision that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development should be under the national Government, or maybe fund those two key functions in their counties. I also think that the formula that the CRA has been using for close to 10 years is almost getting outdated. We are supposed to review the current formula that the Commission is using to allocate revenue. For example, if you look at my county, which is Tharaka Nithi, the money that will be allocated to the county is not even enough to cater"
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