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    "content": "if there is a masterplan indicating that those facilities have been planned and will be achieved in the next ten or 20 years, then we should not deny those counties that status. Otherwise, establishing municipalities after the population has been attained means that you will wait for the population and slums to come up and then later on, when you upgrade them to municipality status, you are no longer able to plan, because structures are already there. Therefore, in the same vein that we have to look at the facilities in counties, I think that this Senate should find a way of ensuring that every county has a masterplan that takes care of all these issues, including the headquarters of counties and so forth. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do agree with the suggestions by Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o to the effect that there is need for an element of uniformity, so that we do not at the end of ten or 20 years have some counties with facilities which are way beyond what is really required when others have different facilities. There is need for uniformity. Therefore, this Senate together with the Council of Governors should sit and agree on more or less uniform size and type of facilities that have to be put up in the various counties. Of course, considering the climatic conditions in different counties, there may be variations here and there. But over and above, there should be uniform assets. This issue actually came up even right before the counties were established. I do not quite remember the Ministry which was doing it, but they had proposed to put up these structures even before the counties were established and there was some opposition. But now that we have governors, this Senate or the Committee on Devolved Government should engage the Council of Governors to come up with recommendations and subsequently even engage a consultant. This is because, as the Senate, we do not have the resources to carry out the consultancy to finance that, but I believe that the counties have the resources. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I support but suggest that we do not need another committee for this purpose since the Committee on Devolved Government already exists."
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