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    "id": 262207,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/262207/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ngugi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 112,
        "legal_name": "David Mwaniki Ngugi",
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    "content": "This Bill provides for a decentralized county establishment. Other than the county, the Governor can decentralize the county into smaller units. People have been wondering what will happen to the provincial administration. When we went round the country we assured the provincial administration that nobody would lose his job when we pass the Constitution. I still stand by that statement that no Kenyan should lose his or her job on account of us having passed the Constitution and now passing laws of devolution. However, the role of the provincial administration must change. The provincial administration mentality is a colonial relic. If you go to Germany, Brazil, France or Australia where there are devolved governments, there is no provincial administration. It is my view that the Provincial Administration will be made development co- ordinators. If it is a DC, he has to be a development co-ordinator. In a province like North Eastern, they can be peace and development co-ordinators. If it is a DO and there are several Ministries holding a workshop, it is his role to co-ordinate the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. So, the role of the Provincial Administration cannot exist in its present form, but the administrators will be reformed so that they even play a better role in future."
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