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    "content": "resources in an equitable way to every corner of this country. For the first time, we will be able to recruit and post nurses across the country. It is for the first time that the people of Dujis whom I represent here will share the same resources with the people of Othaya, Langata, Mwingi North and other places represented by people in high offices. It is for the first time we are implementing and putting in place the so called devolved resources. The Minister has set the pace. He has become the first Kenyan to think ahead of everybody before the new constitutional dispensation is achieved. He has shown that Kenyans must be equal and that all belong to this country. He has devolved resources to the constituencies in terms of health, education, infrastructure, livestock, school bursaries and water. It is now for Members of Parliament as leaders of this country to redistribute those resources on an equal footing. I want to tell my colleagues that we should not get excited about the devolved resources at the constituency level. We know about 70 per cent of the Members of the Ninth Parliament did not make it back here specifically because of how they used the CDF resources. Now that these resources have been increased fivefold, I want to urge my colleagues that it is the high time we walked the talk. We should have a technical team above the CDF committee that will make sure that roads we plan to build and the educational infrastructure we plan to put in place are all co-ordinated by the both the Member of Parliament, the CDF Committee and the technical team at the respective Ministries. I want to say it again that for the first time he has allocated close to Kshs15 billion to the"
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