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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Laboso",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I also rise to support this Bill. I think we are now getting to the point where we are beginning to realize that we are truly in a devolved system of government. This being the second Budget that we are preparing between the two levels of Government, I want to say that I am quite happy that we changed the Constitution and we now have our devolved units. If you speak to members of countries where devolution has worked, they truly inspire you to see that this is the best decision that we made for this country. Be that as it may, I am happy that the Jubilee Government has gone ahead and allocated up to 43 per cent of the national revenue to the county governments. This has been done without what we have been hearing our governors going round wanting to protest; wanting a referendum and all manner of things that they did not have to ask because it was already in the plan to increase funding to the county governments. So that for me is a very big plus but even as I make it so, I want to say that it is important that these county governments pull up their socks in terms of what they are doing with the funding that is being given to them. There is clearly a very big disparity between what is happening in different counties as witnessed from the Controller of Budget’s publication The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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