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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank Hon. Mwadime for bringing up the issue of providing water to public facilities. I know it is a problem. I am the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Implementation. Some of the problems we find with some of these Motions are on the implementation aspect. Provision of services is a devolved function under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution and it has been taken to the counties. Sometimes when we urge the national Government to do something, it becomes a problem during implementation. I am saying this because we have handled some petitions here in the past regarding other devolved functions and when it comes to implementation, it becomes very difficult for us to do anything other than plead with the county governments. In other places, we have found a lot of resistance from the county governments. I am saying this because just the other day, we were talking about waste management. When we went to the counties, we found that most of them were not willing to implement what that the National Assembly has directed. So, it becomes very difficult for us to implement aspects and matters relating to Motions. I totally agree with Hon. Mwadime. In my constituency, I have already taken statistics of the 50 primary schools and 18 secondary schools. What is happening to our children is unacceptable and pathetic. I have been urging the county government at the local level to understand that the amount of money that the Government gives for free primary education is not enough for a whole year. I think every child is allocated only Ksh3. You allocate only Kshs5 per child and they are, maybe, 1,000. If you multiply that amount per child with the total number of children, you will find that it is not enough to pay water bill for even one week. The bills at the primary schools are crazy as we are talking now. I took statistics to find out the amounts. 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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