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    "id": 271988,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/271988/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 84,
        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
        "slug": "musalia-mudavadi"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you. I beg to second this Bill and indicate that a lot of extensive consultations have taken place because, initially, there were two Bills. There was one which was being generated by the Treasury, and then there was another one which was developed by the taskforce that was dealing with the aspect of devolution. The taskforce on devolution specifically looked at two Bills with regards to finance. One was what you call the Inter-Governmental Fiscal Relations Bill and what you call the County Finance Management Bill. On deliberation, it was then agreed that rather than have two different pieces of legislation, there should be harmonization of the two Draft Bills. Therefore, the Ministry of Finance with its document and the taskforce with the document that they had submitted - which have been made public - were then merged and many clauses were then harmonized. So, this becomes one Bill taking into account aspects developed by the taskforce on devolution and the Ministry of Finance. I just want to highlight that, indeed, we have come a long way because the thinking and mood was quite at variance in the initial stages. But with a lot of consultations, the harmonization process was able to bring us closer together on these aspects, so that there is adequate co-ordination and clear linkage between the National Government, its budgetary process and a clear linkage with the county government and also, further than that, with the county governments and its entities. That is because in this Bill, you will find that it goes beyond just the national government or the county government in totality. We also provide, particularly under Articles 166 onwards, details on how urban areas and cities will be financed, how they should be managed and so forth. We also provide a lot of details on entities because there are public entities like water"
}