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    "id": 187130,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) My Ministry does not intend to gazette new local authorities in line with the new July 30, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2185 districts. Unlike districts which are created purposely for administration, local authorities are mandated by law to provide services and, hence, their creation should be based on their abilities to provide the said services, for example, public health, water and sanitation. The creation of more county councils will result in the fragmentation of the council resources into multiple unviable physical jurisdictions with high administrative costs. County councils in the past have been created along the district boundaries. However, due to the inviability of a number of county councils and other local authorities, it is advisable to establish the financial viability of any local authority before it is created. That, therefore, means that the creation of new districts does not automatically translate to a similar number of local authorities. (b) The number of local authorities to be created by the Government will be subject to the viability of the new entities as mentioned above. (c) The actual number of local authorities to be created, has therefore, not been determined and it is therefore, not possible at the moment to table the list of proposed local authorities because we are undertaking the exercise of assessing their viability."
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