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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "content": "I want to support because in the third formula - where I was present and I sat on the chair you are sitting on. It took us about 11 very difficult sittings, but something that came out very clearly was the unity of the House. Sen. Kinyua will remember that the House was united in speaking fairness. I want to thank this Committee because, if you look at the observations that they have given, they have not deviated from fairness. The parameters that have been used are slightly different because in the Third Formula we wanted to look at the second part of the Fourth Schedule. We had asked for more money, so that we could have the devolved functions being followed by resources. When we did not succeed, this House decided to break the boundary between the two sides of the House. They debated and came up with a formula that was implemented and made everybody happy. I am appealing to the House that we do exactly the same. Let us think in terms of our unity and fairness. In the Fourth Basis, according to the Committee, sharing is still looked at as a devolved function, not within the parameters that we had used. They have looked at the functions globally. They have ensured that first, nobody loses, which was the principle that came out very strongly in the Third Basis that nobody should go below what they had gotten. I want to support that as we look at this formula, let us think in terms of sustaining the momentum of devolution. This is the House that protects devolution. It will be very sad that we squabble and have squabbles that derail us. Our focus should be on how we can protect devolution by sustaining the growth of everybody. We know that some colleagues feel that they should have been fast-tracked a little bit, but if you look at the agreement of this morning to release the Kshs2 billion, that is a step in the right direction. I still think that we should persuade all our colleagues to agree with this formula. The reason we need unity in this House is because the amount of money that we are"
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