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    "id": 676971,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "must insist that there must be monies going direct to the projects as proposed. We did it almost 14 years ago. To stop the wanton theft of public funds, we must have project management committees in everything, be it NGCDF, county funds or any devolved funds so that people can be allowed to have a say. Devolution is about people. The way it used to happen has changed. That is what our people expect with devolution. The NGCDF has not disappointed. I can tell you with a lot of comfort that the economic growth figures that we keep reporting here have a lot to do with the NGCDF. It has very little corruption. If any, people cannot steal from themselves. Individuals are stealing from people and that must not happen. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am in the know that the Senate, through Sen. Amos Wako, is proposing a Bill to have counties have their own attorneys who are salaried. Not too long ago, the Leader of the Majority Party tabled a list of the money the Council of Governors (CoG) has paid to private lawyers. If the national Government can use the Office of the Attorney-General (AG) whose budget we pass here, why would 47 counties use Kshs1billion in a year? What has that money been used for? There are cartels which have found their way from Nairobi to the CoG. If we do not use this opportunity to stop them, then we will not be doing ourselves any good. So much is not understood because of who we are. We must import the wisdom of the framers of our new Constitution where everything is put in black and white and which says “shall.” If we do that, we will all obey the law. I say that because in my county, the local revenue collection is the work of the county assembly. It is their work to audit market and beach collections and tolls. We need to empower the county assemblies and stop the Senate from looking at local revenue collections. I was reading a couple of court rulings and there is one by Justice Isaac Lenaola which nicely interpreted the provisions of the Constitution. It says that the Senate is supposed to look at national allocations. That is why the Senate is in Nairobi. You find a scenario where Senators are now in counties looking at what was collected in markets. The worst thing it does, which is unconstitutional, is take away the job of the MCAs. We need the MCAs. How nice would it be to take a little time and make an amendment that clarifies that which the Senate is seeking and trying not to understand? We must do that. We must tell the Senate, counties and the national Government boundaries in law. I am happy my good friend, Hon. Gikaria, is here."
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