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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, we know many hon. Members here are new, and we do not want to be ambushed. This is because some of these bulky documents that have been brought need to be combed properly, and we must know what is hidden beneath. I was looking at the competition of county governors for equitable shares, especially in respect of conditional allocations and I could see that donor support was allocated Kshs16 billion. When you talk of donor support and, again, it is conditional, we, the people in the marginalized areas, feel that we will be marginalized for the simple reason that such a--- We cannot do anything in our areas because there is cattle rustling or Al Shabaab . We cannot do anything there because of the presence of Al Shabaab . We have no justice. You talk about expenses relating to regional referral hospitals. We have never seen such things. They are not known in our areas. This is because there has never been even one. So, we think that marginalization is still going on, and it must stop. What happened when the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) allocated some revenue, and went public by declaring what amount of money was given to which country? All of a sudden, the national Treasury was saying that we must go back to the drawing board. We want to know what has changed. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we know that this is the first time we are trying to practise devolution and we know it comes at a cost. There are some places with no infrastructure. I thought we would have allocated a lot of money to the county governments, so that they at least pick up. There are counties which are income-generating; others are not, yet they must put up the essential infrastructure, so that they pick up. These are some of the things that must be looked into. As the august House we need to ensure that the rules that are being used are fair. Somehow we are very busy trying to paralyze this House on the issue of committees. The other day when we were talking about salaries, we were all together and we had no problem. I do not know why when we want to serve the nation we should bring problems. This House is ruled by this Green Book, the Standing Orders. It is high time our friends in CORD realized that--- Many of them always stand on points of order holding this Green Book and trying to---"
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