{"id":650388,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/650388/?format=json","text_counter":791,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Ababu","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":108,"legal_name":"Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba","slug":"ababu-namwamba"},"content":"The question of planning needs some standardisation. Therefore, you do not want to localise some of these critical services in such a way you remove that national oversight that ensures standards across the Republic. I also dare say that sometimes we forget that even though we have gone devolution, Kenya still remains very much a unitary state. We have not created separate little states out there. So, this amendment would deny the Bill that necessary role of the national standardisation."}