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    "id": 1522788,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1522788/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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    "content": "Some county governments are building posho meals while others are building rice meals. These are things that the central Government is already divesting from. I belong to a small group which is already doing a study on whether the structure that we have for devolution is sustainable for Kenya. Our preliminary conclusion is that it is not. As a matter of fact, what will be more sustainable is to protect devolution and devolve funds through constituencies. What that would mean, if I may use Turkana County as an example, it gets about Ksh12 billion per year. With its six constituencies, for direct development each constituency will have Ksh2 billion in a year. In Suba South, from the calculation that we have done, if I was to oversee the constituency for 10 years at the current amount of devolved funds, we will resolve all the road networks, build hospitals, and finish constructing all the schools after the 10 years. We will be now talking about new things. So, the war that we should take to them – building on what Hon. Millie said – is to relook at the Constitution and the structure of devolution, take away the counties but protect the funds by channeling them as development funds directly to the constituencies. That is what is working in this country. All other things are not working. That is the war that we need to take to them as a House. If this House, in a bipartisan manner, can come up with a working group to explore this matter and review the current status using experts – that is exactly what we are proposing – we will help this country. Devolution in its current structure is not sustainable. It will never work. It is a den of corruption and contains incompetent people. When you go to functions, governors carry truckloads of people to praise them. You will find other groups that have been brought to the functions fighting. It is all chaos! Devolution is not working for this country. Thank you."
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