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    "id": 1378428,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " I thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also thank the Member for Embakasi Central for bringing this matter to the Floor so that it is discussed as a national issue. When we devolved with the new Constitution, we ended up with a suspended system. The system of devolution only devolves up to the ward level. There is a gap between the ward level and what is happening in mashinani. What happens is that with the devolution, each county is equalised; including the biggest city in East and Central Africa, Nairobi. In Nairobi County, you get wards that are probably the size of an entire county elsewhere in terms of population. So, when you centralise the recruitment of either NYS, Police or the Army, you disenfranchise an extremely big part of Kenya's population. Beyond the recruitment issue, we have to find a way to resolve this issue of Nairobi County being considered equal to every other region in the country. Nairobi needs to get its fair share, considering its big size and its contribution to the GDP of this country. It should get its fair share of the national cake. Thank you very much."
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