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    "content": "the counties. If you look deeply into the money allocated by the Treasury to the heath sector, you will find that a substantial sum of that money will still go to the bureaucracy that runs health in the national Government. The same Constitution says that this function should progressively be given to the counties and more money should be given to those functions that the counties perform. Therefore, it is irrational that in the Health sector, we should have relatively more money being consumed for administration and bureaucracy purposes than for service delivery. This is because service delivery is more important than bureaucracy. For example, when we initiated the CDF, overheads took only 3 per cent of the CDF budget which meant the rest of the 97 per cent went for service delivery. When donors fund projects, at least 30 per cent of the money goes to administration and overheads. This means that it is more than ten times of what we did with the CDF and yet CDF worked much better with the much less percentage being given to bureaucracy and administration. As we move on to the Twelfth Parliament and the next Government, I urge the next Senate and the next National Assembly to look at this repartition of funds between bureaucracy and service delivery. This is the only way the National Assembly will come to a point where they will appreciate better what the Senate is currently proposing. In other words, we shall go beyond just looking at Division of Revenue Bill and how much money is going to the counties. We need to reflect with the Treasury and the CRA on how much money we are wasting in supporting non-reproducing bureaucracy at the national level rather than supporting service delivery in the counties."
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