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    "id": 1423305,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1423305/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Secondly, there has not and there shall never be a competition between devolution and the NG-CDF. If anything, the courts have pronounced themselves on the NG-CDF. For the NG-CDF to be constitutional, it has to come to this House, so that we also have our voice. This argument should not be one-sided; that Members of the National Assembly are the umpires and judges on who is working and who is not. Where have they gotten approval that what is working is only the NG-CDF and the NGAAF, but devolution is not working? We want medicine in our hospitals. I sit in the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC). We want counties to improve in service delivery. Most functions we are talking about belong to county governments. If we push services to the counties without resources, how are they expected to offer them? Finally, they say when you want to kill a dog, give it a bad name. Devolution is being killed because of some malpractices. Sen. M. Kajwang’ and I sit in the CPAC. We have governors who have gotten unqualified opinions. It means that devolution is working in some counties. If devolution is not working, then it is in your county and you have the ability to elect a governor who works. We cannot kill devolution because of a bad or rogue governor. We heard a Member of Parliament (MP) complaining that a governor was disrupting---"
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