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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I thank hon. Mule for clarifying that his Committee has done some work and it is the Attorney-General who is at fault for not bringing those regulations. The fact is that those regulations are not here. But before I was interrupted, I was talking about what exists in the law. The law talks about the costing of functions which has not been explained to us. At which level was it decided how much money would go to the counties? Do we know if that money was adequate and appropriate to the task that the county governments were expected to do? If we want to kill devolution in this country - and I am disappointed that the CORD leadership in this House that should be the robust Opposition is missing in action right now as we discuss a very important matter that is a key part of our platform and the implementation of the Constitution – is absent. We do not have an official CORD position and so, even as the country listens to us and our fellows in Jubilee try to take a stand with us or against us in this debate, they are not sure what the official CORD’s position is. That is because we have not yet debated and agreed on it. Be that as it may, I will continue here and say that philosophically, I believe that we must devolve power to the county governments. We must devolve resources to county governments. We must, regardless of our politics with any of the governors, make sure that we support the institution of governorship because governors will come and go but county governments must stay. They must be given the capacity to do their job well. If we do not recognize the role of the summit and again we go back to the law--- The law is the Inter-Governmental Relations Act and the Jubilee people have been very careful recently been telling us that if we want dialogue, then it must be done within existing institutions in our laws and Constitution. My friends, you cannot have your cake and eat it at the same time. The existing institution for inter- 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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