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    "id": 1234669,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "there will be one person representing the county assembly and technical people from the ministries. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this was absurd. We made arguments that county governments are just thieves ‘eating’ money and we should give them additional money. We have a deficit of trust in this country. If we think that the people we have in counties are thieves, why do we keep voting them back? Why can we not kick them out of office? There are a lot of instruments we have in the Constitution and various laws. We cannot keep making legislation on the basis of suspicion. This House should not sit aside and watch devolution, the structures of devolution and county governments dismantled. If I see Sen. Ali Roba has bought a new car, I start thinking that he has bought that new car from DORA or County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA), not knowing that Captain Roba receives a salary of a million shillings and is capable of buying a new car. We made a mistake. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have just been talking to the then Chair of the Committee on Delegated Legislation, Sen. Faki. The National Treasury made a commitment to this House that, please, pass these regulations, let us unlock funding to the marginalised areas; we will come back and amend the regulations. Those regulations have not been amended today. Where is the National Treasury? The Chairman of Delegated Legislation Committee, Sen. Gataya Mo Faya, you must demand from the National Treasury the amendments that they promised. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this, we are all equally guilty because this came in the heat of the campaigns and some of us thought we would be in government, so that we could change these things once in government. I now challenge those who got into government through the back door and through the windows. Can you now amend those regulations because you stridently stood on the Floor of this House saying that those regulations should not pass? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the sunset to this particular provision is fast approaching. Let us be bold enough to come up with legislation to extend the duration for this financing. Let us not use that as a window to bring on board the 13 other counties that are not included here. The other counties have got money through the Division of Revenue Allocation (DORA) Bill and County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA) that the Senate appropriates every other year. Let us not mix things."
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