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    "id": 1581908,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1581908/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": "takes nothing from the governors or counties. It is alive to the fact that under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, there are functions which are reserved for the national Government alone. Some people think that the national Government is operating somewhere in the air. That when it wants to execute or implement functions, they have to go through counties. If that were true, then we would not have the Fourth Schedule stating the functions of the national Government and those of the counties. There are national Government functions which it has to deal with from the national level down to the grassroots. Some people think that devolution means all monies should just go to the counties. Let me disabuse their minds of that. If we are not careful, counties are becoming a centre for centralisation of resources. They are picking own source of revenue from the local people through taxes and also getting the devolved share of revenue from the national Government upon the division of revenue. All those monies are collected there. That was not the contemplation of the makers of the Constitution. They wanted to ensure equity in resource distribution which Kenya had been fighting for very long. That monies from the national Government must percolate to the counties, deep down to the other levels in the wards and finally, to the local person down there."
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