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    "id": 257535,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/257535/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
        "slug": "judah-ole-metito"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the Motion. In supporting the Motion, I will not talk about the Bill which is not before this House. I will talk about issues that are so dear to my constituents, namely, devolution. We all know that we are now moving towards devolution. That is where resources will be based. That is where the development of our counties will be based. It is important that this Government gets right the criteria that it is going to use to allocate and distribute those resources. Just recently, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) published data indicating the wealthy and the poor counties. I am surprised and so are my constituents, that Kajiado County was named the wealthiest county. I really wanted to understand the source of that information. I want to challenge the CRA that they did not do their job right. All the Commissions that we are forming in this House are meant to serve this country equitably and fairly without any discrimination. The source of that information which the CRA relied on was the report on poverty index that was done by the Government in 2006 and that report was the subject of a court case. Just last year, the CDF allocation was based on it. I am very clear that 99 constituencies out of the 210 lost very big percentages. Some Kenyans moved to court to challenge the authenticity of the report on poverty index. That was the report that the Commission on Revenue Allocation used to tabulate the so-called the rich and not rich counties in this country. One would want to ask himself whether Kajiado County, which starts from Ngong all the way to the border of Taita Taveta County---. It is 21,000 square kilometers and is one of those classified as arid counties. A day after the publication of that report, I received a letter from the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of State for Special Programmes, directed to my District Commissioner and copied to me as the Member of Parliament for the area. The letter"
}