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    "id": 639390,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/639390/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "In America, as much as money goes to the state, where the Federal Government thinks that this is an area of importance, you will see it shedding more money to the national government trying to get the states that are doing better in those areas and encouraging the ones that are doing badly to do better. So, I would like to see that in Kenya. Where a county, for example, is doing well in housing, you will find that housing is devolved but I am certain that few counties have put money in housing. This is the case and yet if you go to the villages where we come from, you will find most widows and old women stay in shanties. They stay in paper houses. We want to see money going to those areas. We also want to see the national Government encouraging county governments that put money in those areas do better in that regard. We are in this together. There is no Kenya on one side and the counties on the other. The counties are within the county. Where the counties do well, Kenya does well. Where the national Government does well, Kenya does well. Realising that we are in this together is important so that we stop competition. I want to blame the Presidency on this matter. You cannot start cutting this country into pieces by saying; “these are national Government issues and these are county issues, and we do not talk about them” and all that. We are working for the same Kenya."
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