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    "content": "The Judiciary is independent of the Legislature. It is not an annex of the Senate. So, the people who are watching and listening must see that there is total confusion that ultimately will curtail the objects and the functions of devolution as hon. Junet said. Here, we are being told that budgets have been passed. The Senate is saying that it cannot pass the Bill that is supposed to give the money. So, if the Bill has not been passed by the Senate, what have they used to create their budgets as county governments? You saw an allocation of entertainment of Kshs53 million. I am told but I have not confirmed it, that one governor has allocated Kshs1 million for petty cash for a month. The objects of devolution under the new Constitution was for service and governance to go to the common people, health services to be improved and roads and schools to be built. The Kenyan people killed the presidency because of excessive powers. They did not want the presidency. That is why they devolved powers. Now, we are devolving 47 presidents. We are having 47 imperial presidents until the Kenyan citizens are told that those 47 imperial presidents will turn into 47 warlords before 2017. The history of warlords in Somalia is a very terrifying one. We do not want to have 47 warlords. We do not want to have 47 imperial presidents. I want to make it very clear. I am the biggest proponent of devolution and devolution is a whole chapter in our Constitution. Nobody should tell us that we are going to kill devolution. Devolution is not a choice. It is in the Constitution. We do not want this House to be portrayed as killing devolution. When devolution is leaving the main route as per the Constitution, we are under obligation, morally, as the leaders of this country, to say that we want to look at what is happening."
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