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    "id": 385150,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, brother. Maybe you could have reminded the Members of Parliament from the lake belt to be very serious about these things rather than talking carelessly. I am not very happy about one thing in the national government; that is, the creating of a Ministry for Devolution and Planning. This was a mistake because devolution is spelt in the Constitution. It is clear that we have two levels of government. It is clear how they relate. This House disburses the money. I would approve the money that goes to the county governments. They do not require nor do they need to be supervised. It is not provided for that they should be supervised by anybody. I wonder what the Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning will do. Is she going to supervise and with what powers? Is she going to provide on who gets which money, especially this one which we call conditional funds or what is it that she is going to do? Is it the importation of the Minister for Local Government again to control and to throttle, if possible, the growth and development of our county governments? I hope the President will look at it again so that he could give the Minister some other job to do rather than the job of devolution because there is no work to do there. Thank you and I support."
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