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    "content": "find that it is far much reasonable than what the Treasury is proposing in this Bill. If you go to the Constitution, the Fourth Schedule, we have 14 critical roles and functions of county governments. The Fourth Schedule also outlines the different roles and functions of the National Government but if you look at the main role of the National Government, it is to develop policy whereas the county governments have been given a critical role of implementing development agenda at the devolved level. If you looked at what the Transition Authority put up recently in terms of what devolved services should now be taken up by the county governments, then you realize that, indeed, the county governments have a far much higher socio-economic responsibility which require far much more funding than is being proposed in this Bill. Therefore, if we look at the immediate challenges which most of the counties are now facing, you will realize that most county governments had imagined that they would start off by saving some money through occupation of existing Provincial Administration infrastructure; that they would start off working from the former offices of County Commissioners or Provincial Commissioners. But what is coming out is that many of them have to budget to build their own county headquarters and that is going to be a huge cost to be borne by these counties. Therefore, I also want to support what some of my colleagues have said that the Kshs31 billion which the county governments may easily lose should ideally be factored into their allocation so that their taking off is far much faster and they are able to put in the necessary infrastructure to enable them deliver their various services, as spelt out in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, to wananchi of this country at the grassroots level."
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