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    "id": 468045,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "I am sorry! Madam Temporary Speaker, right now, we have different signals from the Government on what functions have been transferred to the county governments. Because sometime ago – and it was widely reported and we heard it with our own ears – communication was made in support of the fact that the Government is committed to ensuring that the county governments do operate; it was reported that all the functions had been transferred to the county governments; all of them! Then, yesterday in the morning on television and also before us, the Secretary for Devolution actually clarified that and said that what was meant by that statement was that it was the intention of the Government to transfer the functions which are set out in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution; the intention! But the actual transfer is not yet completely done. But, then, stopping there, nobody could really tell us, if it is really so, what functions have been transferred and what have not been transferred. So, right now as we are talking, we are really in the dark as to what functions have been transferred to which counties, and so on. We are really in the dark as to what costing was done in respect of those functions because, as we know, Article 15 of the Fourth Schedule clearly states that before any function is transferred, there should be a criteria which must be met by the county governments in respect of that function to show that it is able to perform those functions. When it was said that everything was transferred, that was clearly in contradiction to the articles of the Constitution. When it was said that it was an intention and some functions had been transferred, we do not know!"
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