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    "id": 748263,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "if the national Government speaks about the county governments then they are fighting those county governments is wrong. It is also because the national Government has also not made it its business to set these basic minimum standards. If you are going to give county governments money for running health, build a simple dispensary in one or two counties and tell the county governments: “This is what we want to see you doing.” Set the example. If it is about water, set up a system for water in one or two counties which agree and then tell the county governments: “This is how we want to run the country in terms of water.” However, they cannot keep on asking: “What do you want us to do?” No! The National Assembly has a big role in the success of the county governments and they must set the best example for this country. The President must tell us that as the President, this is how I would want to see the county governments being run. You cannot do it by depending on the governors to decide what is going to be done. Set the example and they will follow. How I wish that in the next financial year we will not have a problem like the one we have now where we have to go to the Senate and then back to the National Assembly on a matter that we know we have to live with. We will live with the fact that we will always pass this kind of Bill every year. So, we do not have to use legalities. Let the two Houses agree and do the right thing early and in a timely and amicable manner because devolution is, in my opinion, the panacea of development in this country. With those many remarks, I support."
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