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"content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think you will add me some time because of this interruption. Really the people who pushed the President were actually the governors. It is on record everywhere--- As has been said before, it is at the summit where it was actually decided that all functions would be actually devolved. There are records on that; so, all the problems you are seeing, whether in health, law, absorption at the counties, losses of money--- I am thoroughly convinced that if we had put our systems in place gradually as the law requires, we would not have gotten here. We needed not to really muscle the Transition Authority, and actually, render ineffective the law on transition to devolved governments. I think even at this point we are in a situation where the summit and the President should look back and say: “Let us plan devolution even if we do not go back to the Transition Act.” Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of corruption the President said that we should not devolve, or transfer some of our bad habits to the counties. Is that all he can say about devolution in a State of the Nation Address when we have admitted that the laptops project has not worked, and that the standard gauge railway project has had a problem? Really, he needed to say more on corruption and, perhaps, the law that is actually being proposed of capital punishment. We expect that it should even be a Government Bill. This is because unless we address the issue of corruption, all the other things we are looking at will not work. If Kenyans are corrupt, wherever you put them there will be corruption also. On insecurity, I want to say honestly this country is at war. We have guerilla warfare going on in this country and the reason we are not addressing it is that we are looking at it as an isolated issue. You cannot address that by just mounting closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras; you are saying you are going to increase the--- 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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