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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I am well advised and accept, except to say that in the analysis of functions in Schedule Four, Members have dwelt on this very important matter of whether a function is concurrent or exclusive. I said yesterday that the challenge that we have, something that we must expeditiously do, working together with the Treasury and Transition Authority, is unbundling these functions, so that we are able to know what exactly it means to say “financing agriculture.” As you have heard from Sen. Kajwang, when I was a young boy – and the Minority Leader whispered to me that it was also the same in Bungoma County - there used to be a person called “ Borafya” . I did not even know that it was a Kiswahili word “ Bora Afya .” The person used to come around and remind us to dig latrines and ensure that we are maintaining good standards of public health. We need to restore this kind of officers because they are the ones who made the great Senators who are here. We want them to also perform those functions at the county level to ensure that the future generation is getting good health and that we have good agriculture and housing at the local level. Let me pause and ask a rhetorical question. If you give counties that have slums Kshs5 billion or Kshs7 billion and the Constitution says that housing is a function of county governments, does it take Kshs5 billion to remove slums in Kibera, Mombasa, Eldoret or Kisumu? I think that it takes more resources and that is why it is important that when we come back to this question of unbundling an analysis of functions, it has to be very clear that the counties are actually performing functions under Article 43; what will be called socioeconomic rights. Therefore, in achieving that important right, which is recognized internationally, it is important that the necessary resources are given to the counties to ensure that they perform their constitutional duties and this country has equity, so that we avoid what the Senator for Mombasa told us; that we do not want also The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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