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    "id": 357500,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "Thank you very much Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I am supporting this Bill in principle because the time that was available for some of us to look at it was not enough. The time was not enough for us to scrutinize it a bit more thoroughly and even involve our constituents. There was no time to even involve Kenyans who have expertise in this area. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as it is normally said, the devil is in the details. However, I have said that I support it in principle because looking at the reasons and objects of the Bill; it is addressing one of the very fundamental aspects of our Constitution, namely devolution. Even in his address to this House, His Excellency the President did mention devolution as one of the pillars which he was going to base his development on to move this country forward. So, this particular Bill is in support of realization of that particular objective of devolution. Hon. Deputy Speaker, my encouragement in this Bill also arises from what I have observed; the role that Constituency Development Fund (CDF) has played in development, particularly in rural areas and other hitherto rather neglected areas. If we can base our model on what I have seen, the role that I have observed CDF play, then I think devolution is the way to go in development of this country. I would like to agree with some of the hon. Members here who said that this devolution should actually be carried all the way to the grassroots. We should not just devolve up to county level, and then county headquarters become another central area. It should be able to devolve right up to the ward, through the constituency right up to the ward."
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