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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Regional Development Authorities Bill is very important. I would like to urge Members to contribute to it because it affects us. We must align the RDAs to the Constitution because some of the mandates they have taken belong to the county government and, hence, becoming counter-productive. This is a constitutional issue because the RDAs want to undertake water, education, roads and health functions and yet, some of those functions belong to the national Government while others belong to the county governments. The county governments should be given space to do their work as provided in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. To continue to have the RDAs in the national Government, with functions that cut across the two levels of government, is in contravention of the Constitution. Therefore, they must be aligned. The RDAs need to choose to be mammals or birds. We currently have nine RDAs doing work that is cross-cutting. We must abide by the Constitution. Where should they lie in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution? Should they lie in the national Government or the county governments? There has been an argument by the governors – which I support - to some extent because they have been setting regional blocks that require money so that they can perform the functions of the county governments. We have been denying the regional blocks resources because we have been taking the money to the RDAs and yet, they do not have the mandate to do the work of the county governments. I will introduce an amendment to this law and have my say during the Third Reading so that, instead The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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