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    "id": 1422540,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I stand to support the amendments by the Senate. Let us be honest to ourselves and to Kenyans. Some of the counties you see in this country have seen Ksh1 billion for the first time in their lives after devolution. We shall, as a House, not be used to kill devolution. We must stand up because that is the only way to save devolution. As you are aware, the Senate has only asked for an increment. They never said we remove money from the NG-CDF or the Fuel Levy. There are devolved functions that are being held here in Nairobi like health and agriculture. Why are you keeping the money in Nairobi? Why do you not send the money to the counties? That is why we have people eating fertiliser money in this country. Why can you not send the money to the counties? If Osoro might want to know what I am saying, it is that we must send more money to the counties. If you want to deal with corruption at the counties, deal with it. Jail governors; jail chief officers and all kinds of people. But you cannot deny the people of Kenya who live in the counties money in the pretext of corruption. There is more corruption in the national Government than in the counties, but nobody speaks about it. About 90 per cent of our natural resources remain with the national Government and not the counties. We are devolving less than 15% to the counties, and we magnify the corruption there as if that is the only money in Kenya. Money is in Nairobi and in ministries. Money is also with the principal secretaries and the cabinet secretaries. That is why we are dealing with issues of fertiliser today, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I urge this House not to be used to kill devolution. What is going to bring life to this country? What is going to develop this country? What is going to make this country a first world country is devolution. That is how Germany and France developed. That is how old democracies developed."
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