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    "content": "I wish to say that the Budget and Appropriations Committee is fully committed to devolution. I say this because yesterday we had a long session with none other than the council that represents governors in the country led by a former colleague, Mr. Ruto, Governor for Bomet County. He was accompanied by among others the Vice-Chair of the Council of Governors, Dr. Evans Kidero, the Governor for Nairobi County. We were very pleased to meet with the governors as they sought to argue the case why they needed to get more money than had been otherwise allocated by the National Assembly. We raised these issues but I wish to say that at the end we assured them that we will support devolution. We also met twice with the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and his team. We had lengthy discussions spanning not less than four hours yesterday and among other things we were discussing this whole issue of the allocation of funds to the various sites and various budget centres in the national Government, Parliament through the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) that Hon. Speaker chairs and also through the Judiciary. We communicated this to the governors and to Mr. Rotich, the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury that after all the consultations we have had regarding this matter, it is our view, as the Budget and Appropriations Committee that we create a fairly serious forum that will bring together the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We will convene this forum and then bring into that platform a number of Cabinet Secretaries led by the Cabinet Secretary in charge of devolution, the National Treasury, no less, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, the ones responsible for health, education, water and agriculture. We mentioned these Cabinet Secretaries because when you go to Schedule Four of the Constitution, these are some of the matters whose application in terms of national and county governments are not always as clear as we may wish to imagine they are."
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