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    "content": "The other interpretation is on the “national allocation”. It would be important that we start to understand what exactly is covered in national allocation and what it is that we have passed in this schedule. The other term that is used in the scheduled is “unconditional allocations”. They need to be understood in terms of what we are passing today. Yesterday the Bill that we had received had an interesting term of “allocation of monies to counties to make them harmless”. It was rather difficult to understand that. It is important to have these definitions. I also want to urge this House that this is the first bill that we are passing on sharing of revenue. We can allow these definitions to help us for now, but I am hoping that next year we will do a better job in terms of looking at real devolution. I do agree that many of us here believe in devolution and we want to protect and secure devolution for real. There are many prophets of doom, there are people who have even given our devolution a ten year timeframe and after that, it will not be working. This House must commit and recommit itself to make sure that devolution works for Kenya and Africa and this devolution is real. It is not just cosmetic devolution."
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