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    "content": "in our Committee. We will be making fairly extensive recommendations and possible amendments to this Bill to ensure that it captures the spirit, contribution and many of the issues that we want. As I conclude, one of the challenges we are facing at the county level is the fact that wananchi know that they voted for county governments for purposes of having devolution and to have services and development at the county level. However, what we have seen, in the last few months, is that county governments are expending a lot of time and resources creating bureaucracy and protocol issues that are not useful. We seem to have county governments that admire the bureaucracy at the national level and yet that is what wananchi and the people of Kenya were running away from. We expected county governments to be centres of service delivery and development, but instead we are creating bureaucratic structures at the county level. We must focus our counties on development. That is why this board will provide a platform for all of us as elected leadership at the county level. We should change our attitudes and reorient ourselves into ensuring that we get development at the county level. At the country level, this platform will allow us to engage and agree, as leaders, at the county level on issues that we want to approach the county government on in unison. These are some of the benefits that will come with the board. We have even discussed and even agreed that when we get to that level, we will suggest amendments so as to create structures further down to reach the grassroots because the principles of the new Constitution are based on devolution. We need to take some of these services closer to"
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