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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill, but what bothers me is that this Bill is for the Financial Year 2024/2025. These funds should have long been used yet we are still discussing them, and the people they were supposed to serve have not been served. The jobs they were supposed to do have not been done. My concern is the perpetual adversarial relationship between the counties and the national Government. I do not think the idea of devolution was to build territories. The idea was to ensure that monies flow to counties. It is a good idea because it has made equity much easier. It does not really matter to the people being served where the resources come from. As leaders, we should realise this. When we have territorial differences and argue over who should control what, the people are simply looking for water, if that is what they need. They do not want to know whether the water is from the national Government or the county government. This should not happen every year. Article 187 of the Constitution provides how this should be done. It outlines the intergovernmental and technical committees’ relations, even between policies and programmes at the county and national levels. Why is it The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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