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    "id": 733104,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I have indicated that I flipped through because of times. We have a lot of divided attention, even though I have not gone to my constituency. I was attending the Pan-African Parliament. Our reports also tend to move fairly fast within this Parliament and sometimes it becomes difficult. However, this is an issue that I am sure all of us are very familiar with. I want to thank the Constitutional Implementation and Oversight Committee (CIOC). I just want to comment on one issue which is that of poor development, a fact that has been historical in Kenya and has created a lot of conflict. Indeed, some of the conflicts that you see in this country are as a consequence of poor or skewed allocation of resources. I know that when we were pushing for the passing of the new Constitution, one of the things that persuaded especially my side of the coalition was a strong commitment to devolution. Because I sat in the special committee that passed the Constitution, I know that our side had really wanted a minimum of at least 45 per cent to be devolved to the counties. Because it was give and take situation, eventually we agreed on a minimum of 15 per cent."
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