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    "id": 499191,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, the fact of the matter is that there is a misconception in Government and within this House, that national Government has some resources or money to give to the county governments. That is not so. This House is required by law to share resources between the county governments and the national Government. Indeed, I get amazed when people think that even the President has to visit somewhere in order for that place to develop. He has nothing to give anybody! It is upon this House to direct development. That is why I am saying that where we have a Bill touching on resources and finances of a county, Article 110(4) of the Constitution requires that both Houses have a voice on it. Minerals are resources we find within our counties and the issue of devolution and counties is about equity; the equity of getting into the situation where we have all the resources leaving the county to the national Government and then they are used in the manner we have seen; being shared between two counties as if other parts of this country have no roads."
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