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    "id": 50538,
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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to talk on the issue of devolution. If you look at what the Constitution provides, the chapter on devolution has not been suspended. So, it is already in effect. The BPS does not talk about the issue of not less than 15 per cent of the funds going to the devolved units. Devolved units are already in operation. We may not have created the county headquarters, but we all know there 47 counties. I would like to encourage the Ministry to start effecting the distribution of these funds to these devolved units. I want to encourage that the culture that I have seen that the Constitution talks about 15 per cent, is that the 15 per cent is a maximum? It is not a maximum. If you want to follow what His Excellency the President said in his statement when he opened Parliament that these are going to be centres for the new economic growth, then the amount that we should be putting is no less than 40 per cent."
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