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    "id": 1613807,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": "96 to appreciate and to know that everything that we do fosters devolution and ensures that it succeeds. The second thing that I would wish Senators to note and perhaps to the pleasing of Sen. Osotsi, Sen. Kisang’, Sen. Omogeni and my colleagues, it is not possible for devolution as a whole to succeed in certain corners of a country while failing in others. This has nothing to do with the people that you vote as a county governor. It is about how strong we entrench devolution and the amount of resources that we send to our counties. It is foolhardy to imagine that it is possible for one county to thrive while the rest is actually faltering. Many of the services that are provided by our counties, for example, are so basic that on many occasions they are shared across counties. Think about health, for example. Many times, Sen. Omogeni knows this. When I go to Kapkatet Hospital in Bureti sub-county, my county, nearly half, if not 40 per cent of the people that I meet are from Nyamira County. The others are from Bomet County and another 30 per cent from Kericho County. It is not possible to believe that when you disadvantage other counties that your own county will thrive. We should always try to seek and ensure that we make all our 47 devolved units successful. It then becomes even a case study for the others to challenge one another and to know what exactly is happening and what is it that one county is doing better than the other. I have my own mini-devolution conference in my county tomorrow. We will be taking stock of 12 years of devolution and seeing what it is that has worked and where we, as a county, have got it wrong with a view to making things better in the next 12 years. That is part of our responsibility and duty that we do as counties or leaders from those counties. We need to ensure that we succeed in granting hope to the citizens, ensuring that given an opportunity, another chance, that they will still make the decision that they made in August of 2010 to ensure that we decentralize power in this country. That should always be at the top of our mind, colleagues, that we ask ourselves, should Kenyans be granted an opportunity to vote for the 2010 Constitution as is, what is it that will make it back to the Constitution and what is it that they will definitely say, “remove this one. This was a wrong decision?” Madam Temporary Speaker, we keep up with the tradition of setting a baseline. Sen. Omogeni and colleagues that were here last term will recall that this is a tradition that we brought to the third formula. It was not there in the first, it was not there in the second. At the first and the second formula, we had absolutely no baseline. We only divided the resources from zero, moving all the way to the funds that were being devolved. We ensured the division and the weights were applied equally on the full amount of resource that was being devolved. However, at the Third-Generation Formula, this thinking of having a baseline arose. It was quite ingenious of us because you recall that there are instances where we have either stagnated or moved back in terms of the resources that we are devolving to our counties. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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