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    "id": 1502663,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "it in a good state to negotiate with development partners from which most of the county governments do not benefit. County governments have tried so much to engage development partners through their investment conferences from the onset. However, because of our policies, they have not achieved much. We all know that even functions that were being unbundled to the county governments were never costed. Arbitrary figures have been put in place for these functions. For example, if you take a devolved function like health, it is so expansive. Yet it was devolved to the counties without a scientific costing that was done to the services that are offered in health. So, the counties continue to suffer with the amounts that they have. It is also common sense that you have a bigger brother like the national Government as we have in the dispensation that we are in, where we have two levels of government. It was well stated that it is the duty of the national Government to build capacity for the county governments to meet the expectations of the public. I felt and I continue to feel, that the national Government should have borne the shortfall that we have. We should have maintained our original figure of Kshs400 billion."
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