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    "id": 732209,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ndiritu",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Mathenge Ndiritu",
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    "content": "others have been completed. I want to congratulate the President for his well-researched Address that covered everything. Since there are quite a lot of things, I just want to mention something to do with devolution. He clearly stated that the Constitution says that 15 per cent of the money should go to the counties. The Jubilee Government has not only done what the Constitution demands, but it has gone far beyond the constitutional requirement in supporting devolution. When we enacted the new Constitution and we are the first generation to actualize it, we were very ambitious. Maybe, it is because of the background that we came from - the skewed developments that have been talked about. Everybody was fearful and wished that we could have a Government all the way down to the village. We have the devolved governments. We have all the monies that the national Government has resolved had devolved. We ended up creating kings. We now have 47 “kings” and recently, you have seen that they think they have come of age and you can see how they are challenging the presidency. When we get to the next Government, we should start re- evaluating the Constitution and then check where we went wrong. We know what has happened to the county governments? Most of those governors, in spite of ---"
}