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    "content": "addressed and we expect that the central Government will want to play a crucial role in ensuring that the capturing of statistics and usage of governance issues should be highlighted so that they can become a basis of other decisions that can be made with regard to revenue allocation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, otherwise, the same complaints that we have heard about inequality of development, much as it may have been contributed by skewed allocation of resources, can still be contributed and, indeed, that sometimes gets contributed by misuse of resources allocated to specific areas, if those resources are not properly utilized. I am still one of those skeptics who believe that the system of devolved governments does not actually hold success. It is really the way it will be implemented including the character and caliber of people who will actually be elected as governors and Kenyans out there had better be really sensitized that they cannot really expect devolved governments per se to deliver to them services. It is really about the character of people they will actually have elected from the governors to ward representatives, and also in terms of their own involvement. That is how they will become interested and involved in the way their resources will be managed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, otherwise, this is going to be a very key transitional period and we urge the Government to move with caution and not to really insist that it is going to devolve all the devolved funds including the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to the same institutions of counties before it has proved itself or before it has proved its worth in terms of absorbing resources and ensuring that they are properly utilized. Otherwise, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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