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    "id": 357548,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. When I looked at the preparations for the allocations to the commissions, I realized that those allocations have gone high. At the end of the day, what CRA has recommended is not being implemented. So, I wonder whether we are paying them just to do the job, but we are unable to implement. CRA came up with some formulas and apparently when a question was raised in this House as to whether CRA has presented its estimates for discussion, it was noted that it has not. This makes us ask whether they really deserve to be paid for a job that they have not done. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue that I looked at is the issue of devolution. In this Division of Revenue Bill, we are talking about devolving funds to the county level. But in the morning, hon. Angwenyi was trying to say something which he was not able to finish. He said that we might be devolving power from the President to the governor and from the governor, it does not devolve down to mwananchi . We want the governors to be held accountable to the citizens of this country and, more so, to the citizens within their counties so that whatever they want to do, they should be able to be held accountable by having devolution that is able to reach to the people. In this devolution, you will find that the money that is actually being discussed, part of it is on recurrent expenditure. Then we wonder how much we are giving in terms of development. If we are going to send money to the counties just to pay employees working there, then we are not going to make roads, deliver services in the hospitals and all that. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this afternoon, hon. Njomo talked about 24 governors implementing a manifesto of one of the competing coalitions in the last elections. When you look at the way this Bill has been formulated, it is in line with the Jubilee Manifesto, which is the governing coalition now. We hope that in counties that we have governors who are coming from the minority party - that is the CORD Coalition - it will not be in order for them to implement a manifesto that is not in line with the governing coalition."
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