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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tetu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Wandeto",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to also lend my voice to this debate. I fully support the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill. I would like to, first, point out that this House will protect devolution. Our primary mandate as the National Assembly and the Senate is to protect devolution. This week, we saw a memorandum of understanding (MOU) being signed that purported to protect devolution yet that is the responsibility of this House. Be that as it may, we need to ensure that we first devolve all the functions in the Fourth Schedule to our Constitution, including health. We know that most of the funds allocated for healthcare services are still at Afya House instead of being with the county governments, which are in charge of healthcare. Funds meant for agriculture still lie at Kilimo House. The national Government is still in the business of distributing fertilisers, an exercise that should be conducted by the county governments. Recently, the national Government started engaging in the business of housing – which is, again, a devolved function. I urge this House to, first and foremost, ensure that we protect devolution from the excesses that we continue to see the Executive engage in from time to time."
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