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    "content": "Secretary of NARC (K) who is seated next to me here will brief me. I am being told that they had proposed to devolve 65 per cent of the resources to the grassroots. The ODM was very ambitious. We had 60 per cent. The PNU and the ODM (K) had proposed 7.5 per cent of the ordinary revenue to be devolved. If we realize devolution of about 6 per cent or 7 per cent, I do not know whether to celebrate that. But it is still a move in the right direction. It is the first time that we are seeing some kind of devolution. I want to caution my colleagues that it is still too early to celebrate because what has really been devolved? If you look at the total Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) allocation of Kshs12 billion, it is about 2.5 per cent, which is the bare minimum. So, why should we celebrate that? The roads fund that has been rechanneled through CDF is still the same money that we were receiving. The only difference now is that it is going to the CDF account from the National Management Board. Maybe hon. Members will have a bigger role to play in terms of its management but the money is still the same. We used to give priority to the roads that were supposed to be worked on but the only difference is that the engineers were taking us for a ride. This time round, we shall have a way of handling them."
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