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    "id": 282873,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have heard people talk about the sharing of revenue among the counties. But I think, as a House, we are missing the point. As a House, we need to, first of all, audit and find out the amount that the Commission on Revenue Allocation, which is performing its constitutional function and mandate, is recommending to be devolved from the national to the county level. Is it sufficient, based on the functions that have been devolved to the county government? I think that is the bottom line. We need, first of all, to ask ourselves: Have we devolved sufficient funds? Remember most of the functions have now been devolved to county governments. For example, we have devolved health. We have devolved almost all the functions except for referrals, and we have very few referral hospitals in the country. In the roads sector, we have devolved all the roads except highways. All those functions need to be devolved together with the resources. That is what the Constitution says. Those resources should be devolved to match the functions that have been devolved. So, we need, first of all, to ask ourselves: Let us not talk about 15 per cent. Actually CRA has recommended that we devolve 33 per cent of revenue to counties. The first governors will not succeed if we do not devolve their share to the Counties. If we get it wrong, we will be setting up the governors and the entire county government management for failure. When that happens, as a country, we will have failed. The Constitution will have failed because the backbone of this Constitution is devolution."
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