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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I really agree with the Senate Majority Leader that we need to complete the matter of allocation of revenue because that is critical. It would have been better if we had dispensed with it today, so that the counties can properly proceed. I did not ask the Senate Majority Leader, but as you advised me yesterday, we could not have debated it if it was not published. We are glad that the President signed the Bill yesterday and it is now published. Therefore, it will be prudent for us, as a House, to pass the County Allocation of Revenue Bill and allow our counties to proceed with the development agenda for this country, so that we can realize the fruits of devolution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I have said over and over again here, both individually and as the Chair of the Committee on Devolved Government, we must distinguish between the role of individuals in promoting devolution and devolution itself, so that we do not reduce devolution to be a one-man agenda and argument that it can only be the Governor, Member of County Assembly (MCA) or a Senator. In fact, Article 174 is one statement that really good scholars of law and political science, like Prof. Anyang’- Nyong’o, would be interested in questioning further. It says that the county government or devolution provides a self-government of the people, in the sense that it brings that part of ownership; that the people own their county and want to run it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my Committee had planned further county visits during the recess. The recess is necessary so that we can visit those counties. We have critical The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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