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"content": "attack on the Senate, it is a systematic process to bring down the devolution process and has something to do with constricting the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. I am very grateful to know that the Supreme Court already interpreted that the role, in terms of Bills concerning counties must be interpreted liberally and widely. President Kenyatta junior, from his campaign wants to depart from the history of the 1960s and he will set a very good example by returning that Bill to this House. He is a great supporter of devolution. I will be shocked if he signs that Bill. Secondly, there was misdirection when it comes to the National Assembly. With due respect, I saw that you were also quoted on the same issue, that hon. Senators were not interested on the matter of the CDF at the moment. The propaganda that was carried to the National Assembly is that if we increase money to the counties we will be removing the CDF. We have not discussed in this House this matter. At the moment, we have no interest of fighting the CDF kitty. We just said that we want resources that are necessary to run the counties to be put in place. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was in a meeting in Mombasa where you were, and all the hon. Members of Parliament from pastoralist communities were requesting that they need more funds set aside through the Equalisation Fund. In fact, they requested for Kshs3.4billion to be shared with them. I asked them a very simple question: “If you could not accept to pass Kshs48 billion, which every county was entitled to at least, Kshs1 billion per county, why complain over the Kshs3.4 billion?” It is important that our brothers and sisters realise that we were not doing this for supremacy. We did this because Schedule Four provides serious functions of agriculture, irrigation, farming, housing, health, et cetera . In fact, we are assisting the President achieve his vision because he has said that he wants to put one million acres of land under irrigation. This cannot be done by the National Government because it is done by counties where agriculture is practiced. He said that he wants to give free maternity services to women. This can only be implemented by counties because all the hospitals, except two referral hospitals, are run by the counties. So, when we did this, we did so knowing that we are consciously assisting the Jubilee Government and the county governments. Lastly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, this House cannot act in vain. We must work towards ultimate realization of good order. It is in order that if this issue is not concluded, the Senators, the Governors and the Speakers of County Assemblies urgently, through my Committee, convene a caucus in Nairobi by Thursday where we will take an appropriate action whether the Bill will have been signed or not. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are behind you in supporting the work you are doing. If you were in the legal circles, we would have said you are the Lorden of the Senate. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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