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    "id": 262627,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "It sounds like sub-chief. We should get away from those funny mentalities. Under Clause 71 we need to tie this with the issue of resources. The national government shall give certain payments under certain circumstances. I would wish to move an amendment that the national government shall take care of all recurrent expenditure failure of which we shall have to put under the Public Finances Bill the capping from 15 per cent that is provided constitutionally to 40 per cent. Otherwise, we will be making nonsense of devolution. I am saying this because if you actually look at all the funds that are available from LATF to CDF all those funds are more than 15 per cent. So, if we are talking of 15 per cent which percentage is going to provide for recurrent expenditure, then we are not talking about devolution, but we are talking about a very quick process of killing devolution before it begins. I want to laud the Minister on the section of planning. However, I want to request- -- For Kenyans, unless something is done by law we cannot do it. I want us to include that over and above the issues that are addressed on spatial planning under Clause 108(2)(c) (ii). It is provided that they shall indicate where the public and private land development and infrastructure investment should take place. We should include that no building should be undertaken before there is infrastructure development. This is because for things which look common sense, here in Kenya common sense is very rare to find. I do not know how we can put up a building without infrastructure development. Once we have houses built, we shall start pushing houses asking where the road should be. For purposes of logic, we need to provide infrastructure before we provide for the buildings. I would like to encourage the Minister to provide it by law. The Minister should ask his counterpart whether we still have a department called planning in this country and why we are paying them any salaries. I do not think they do any work. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think the Minister forgot an important chapter on finance. I know that the Bill makes reference to a public service finance that we shall be providing issues of finance there. However, if you look at this Bill, it is actually a mirror of the Constitution at the national level at the county level. So, it is actually the Constitution of the county level. They have borrowed virtually every chapter of the Constitution to this. Where is there a chapter missing on finance? You must give it meat. You must give it flesh. Even if you do not provide details, you must provide principles and some structure so that we know that you are not providing it under miscellaneous provisions as you are doing now. Financing devolution is not a by the way. It is at the core of devolution. I am actually going to move that and several other amendments, but because I want to give my colleagues time with those few remarks I wish to support."
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