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    "id": 569487,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "July 9th, 2015 SENATE DEBATES 28 Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion and to compliment Sen. Leshore for coming up with the idea of this Motion. We are in a transition and the Motion by Sen. Leshore is actually a wake-up call on quite a number of other issues happening at the county and at the constituency. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, about 15 or 20 years ago, when the country was labouring with how to get closer to the people, quite a number of things were moved towards the constituency. The major one was the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Along those lines and a little bit earlier, we had the District Roads Committees (DRCs), which eventually ended up being a Constituency Roads Committee (CRCs). When the Rural Electrification Authority (REA), came into being, it also ended up being a constituency committee. The HIV/AIDS committees operated from the then district level. However, the real effective unit of the committee was actually at the constituency. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what Sen. Leshore has raised is Straightforward. He is asking us to redirect our efforts towards fighting this pandemic in counties. As Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo said, from the national level, the effort to fight this pandemic is quiet. However, two months ago, the AIDS Committee from Ol Jororok came to see me in my office. If you look at Article 117 of the Constitution, you will see that among the many principles of devolution, one of them was to bring services closer to the people by decentralizing state functions. Perhaps, we, as a Senate, must look at the law through which the NACC operates and amend it accordingly in order to achieve what is proposed in this Motion by Sen. Leshore. As I said, a number of things were done at the constituency level where we had a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the interests of the constituency. This was done in good faith. However, because of not taking this function to the county level, we have ended up sideling the county governments in terms of the services being offered by the NACC or any other body. When we continue with the old domain of concentrating on the constituencies, we find that many things happen with no reference to the governor or county government."
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