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    "content": "So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is important that this House sits down, discusses this issue in a more sober manner and looks at the concerns that have been raised. We went through the public participation forums; we have had formal and informal discussions across the counties; we have met MCAs and a number of them have made proposals; indeed, the importance of the Board is not in question; everybody agrees that we need this platform for consultation by the leaders. But some of the contentions and some of the proposals which we discussed and agreed upon as a Committee is that we need to cascade the Board down to the ward level so that we have a constituency or a Sub-county Development Board and a Ward Development Board. The concept is simple; the concept is very similar; that we need to provide platforms at whatever level where wananchi and the citizens who elected us can make valuable contributions with regard to the development projects that need to be done and considered at the county level. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the amendment Bill proposes that we have the key functions of the Board; and I am proposing that the Board will handle a few of the following issues. One, that the Board will consider making recommendations with regard to the County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP). If you look at the legislations that exist right now, future budgets in our counties will be based on the CIDP. If you look at the CIDPs of almost all of the counties in this country, the components captured within them do not relate only to functions that are going to be undertaken by the county governments. For example, if you look at the CIDP of Nandi County, we are talking about developing and establishing of three public universities. That is not a function of county governments, but that means that we, as a county and as the residents of Nandi County, are already saying that this is the direction that we need development to take in our county government. We need to bring all the agencies that will be necessary or the agencies that we will need to implement our CIDP. If you look at it, we are talking about our referral hospital in Nandi; we are talking about some of the projects that we think are crucial; but all those projects are not going to be implemented by the county government. That tells you that the implementation of the CIDPs in all our counties cannot be fully done by the county governments alone. That is why it is important to have a platform that brings together all the agencies – whether you are talking about the line Ministries from the national Government or the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), or the State Corporations and development agencies at the county level; so that we are all able to draw up a plan on how to implement our CIDPs."
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