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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for your communication and the appointment of very able Senators to the Mediation Committee. The Senate is here to defend devolution. The moment, we make a proposal for monies to go to the counties, it is not upon the National Assembly to say that money can be scooped from the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF). The money for NG-CDF is fixed by the Constitution and cannot be touched. All we are asking is for sufficient monies to be added and sent to the counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, many county functions have since been stuck to the national Government. We want health and agriculture to be fully devolved. Recently, there are markets allegedly being built in the counties by the national Government. It puts the counties in a very difficult position because these markets have to be designed from Nairobi, but the land where they are going to be erected belongs to counties that seems as if they have no role. We want the counties to take their rightful place of taking development to the people at the grassroots level."
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