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    "content": "they have, how many people are employed who are youth and the marginalized communities? How many contracts have been given to the marginalized communities and groups so that we can ensure equity in the county? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when it comes to development, most of the counties are not prioritizing long term development, for example, roads, attracting investors and building factories. The counties have what I can call “the cattle dip mentality” where everybody wants to give a cattle dip to every village so that they can account that they have at least given something small. At the end of the day, you will realize that one year has passed and the county has not changed. The projects the county government is doing are smaller than even those that were done by county councils. The county governments must accept to be educated so that they can focus on long term investments, plan for the county for the next 20 years, even at the same time as they fight for quick fixes or the quick wins for the purpose of showing that devolution is working in the counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must ensure that next year when we are revising this formula, it must be revised to capture issues of population and equity. There are many areas that are marginalized, but the population is less. My argument is that we need to increase the amount of money that is equitably shared across the counties to about 50 per cent. In other words, the other 50 per cent can be applied to the issues of marginalized groups, increase in population and so forth. By so doing, everybody across the country can get a share of the 50 per cent of the resources being allocated to the counties. Finally, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we, as a people, must hold hands together as a House to do what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale was saying. Although we are the ones who do not hold money; we do not have any particular allocation of money that we dispense, that should give us the advantage that we will vigorously pursue matters of accountability knowing that the Kenyan people are expecting us to account for how best we held the county governments accountable. We should not fear because that is a very difficult task. The other day, I went to one county and I heard the Governor humiliating the Senator; by just saying, “I brought to you this road, I have done this agricultural project, what has the Senator done?” That is not the mentality we should be having in this country. We must have a mentality that ensures that---"
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