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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for the opportunity to contribute to the mediated version of the Division of Revenue Bill. The most important thing is that all of us Kenyans passed the new Constitution because we believed in devolution. This arose from the fact that we had seen some of the experiences we had when we came up with the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). We have seen what 2.5 of the national revenue can do, or has done in the constituencies compared to what we had achieved with the national Government funds since Independence. We had also passed laws here to deal with the Constituency Roads Committees. We were able to see how much this has done. Because of that, it was necessary that we come up with devolution, so that we have more funds going to the counties. This is what has been done by the new Constitution. The only problem, as you may remember, when we were passing laws in the Tenth Parliament was whether we were also going to devolve corruption. That is what I see as a major problem. We have had the experience of devolution from the time when we passed the Constitution in 2010. The effective time when we have been able to see how much we are achieving through devolution was from the last general election when we got county governments in place. You can see in counties some of the incidents we get through the print media. The kind of information we get is sometimes very contradictory. You will find a situation where a county is not able to spend money on development. A county like Vihiga was not even able to spend 12 per cent on development, but when it came to opinion polls, they were rated very highly as having performed at number three nationally. You wonder why there is a contradiction, yet the figures we get from the Treasury are supposed to be figures which have been authenticated to show that not much money has been spent. You can see physically on the ground, just as my colleagues were contributing here in the morning, there is not much that is going on in terms of development. It is like we are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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