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    "id": 467270,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity. I would like to recognize this petition and say that it is a very serious petition. It has profound impact on devolution. When you see clinical officers talking about their personal emoluments, where they say that they do not want to be paid by the county governments, it worries me. It worries me because it is increasingly showing that the persons who are expected to go and serve in the county governments have no faith in the institution, structures, abilities and potential of county governments. I have a problem with this petition because first of all, it is not constitutional and it is not legal. The Constitution in the Sixth Schedule, paragraph 15, provides that devolution can be done or phased out to a maximum of three years. That means that it can be done even in one day. It is very important for us to notice that. The Transition to County Government Act is very clear as to how functions are going to be devolved to the counties. It is very clear in Sections 24, 25, 26 up to 27 that for any function to be transferred to the counties, we must be able to assess the capacity of the counties to deal with those functions. The Transition Authority will take the lead in terms of auditing of the capabilities and abilities to take that function. Thereafter, they will advise which functions are going to the counties immediately; which ones will be devolved immediately and which ones will be devolved after a year, two years or three years, maximum. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a problem with this petition because it does not distinguish which county has the capacity, and this is important, to deal with emoluments and which one does not. We cannot receive a petition that has a generalization that all counties are unable to pay salaries. In fact, if this petition has to be within the law, the petitioners must distinguish themselves, county by county, to say that we come from county X or county Y, but as you see---"
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