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    "content": "When you have functions like the industrial parks that are being created, you hear that the national Government will give Kshs250 million, and the county governments will give Kshs250 million. The moment you bring two entities to manage, there is a problem. Why not leave it all to the county governments to deal with those matters? Mr. Speaker, Sir, even counties that were supposed to develop their headquarters were supposed to be assisted. The idea was initially very noble. Five counties did not have good county headquarters, so they were supposed to be assisted by the national Government. Just that line of saying that the national Government as well as the county governments contribute, the model has not worked. None of the five counties to date have been able to construct their headquarters because here there is a boss and so on. This should not happen going forward. We should start by taking a bold step saying, we abolish the Ministry of Health at the national level. Let everything be devolved. Let the money come down. If they must stay there for coordination, let it be little money, absorbed under another department, so that we all know that these funds that used to reside in that Ministry at the national level has come down to the counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to urge colleagues who are listening to me that we debated all these matters that we put there. Do not imagine that the team that was there did not engage. We fully engaged. We would sit from midday all the way to 6.00 p.m. We fully engaged in all these arguments. Looking at the fiscal space and the way we managed to push up here, up there, down here, down there, the figure of Kshs415 billion should be supported. I thank the National Assembly because they have already dealt with their bit. Let us deal with our bit, so that the funds can be released to our county governments and they continue functioning."
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