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    "id": 1419814,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shakila Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. We all know that this House is in charge of devolution. Devolution is working. If we continue protecting it jealously, it will even work better for our people. There are some governors misappropriating funds. However, this should not be a reason for us to punish all governors because of one or two mistakes of individual governors. We are supposed oversight county governments. As we do so, we should identify loopholes, issues, challenges, and problems facing county assemblies. Since inauguration of the current Constitution, the budget of the national Government has been increasing by trillions. However, the budgets of counties are only increasing by a few billion of shillings. We need to ensure that we give more funds to counties so that they grow and develop. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there many challenges facing devolution. For example, health and agriculture functions face serious challenges in our counties. These challenges are a creation of the national Government’s failure to work harmoniously with the county governments. If they were to work together, some of these challenges would have be addressed and improved service delivery to our people in counties. When we deny county governments funds, we are killing devolution. There are delays in releasing funds to counties, which causes confusion making devolution not work as envisioned. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, by allocating more funds to county governments, we will be developing counties and strengthening devolution. The national and county governments should work hand in hand to sort out existing issues in our counties, so that devolution works properly and the results felt at the grassroots level."
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