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    "content": "The issue is; as a leader, as a Government, do you consciously want to change the lives of people? That is what is relevant. When you embark on saying that we are doing this because whoever was here was not doing anything and so on and so forth, so what? Do you want to change people’s lives or not? That is what is important. The valley in Mathare could be a silicon valley. We can put the people who live in Mathare in decent dwelling neighborhoods using the money used by people who sit in offices and fret around in this country. Some are building presidential homes with runways, helipads, five swimming pools and ten guest houses. When they die, they will realize that they will only fit in a-three by six feet and no more. We must change our psyche. We now have devolution. This policy is very short on telling the country what partnership we want to have between the National Government and the devolved units in upgrading the lives of our people. The money we send to the devolved units is barely enough to do anything. We roll out a budget of Kshs2.4 trillion and we give devolved units Kshs304 billion. What percent is that of the Kshs2.4 trillion? You are not formulating policy and law that obligates the National Government from doing important undertakings in the devolved units to change the lives of people using the trillion that is left at the centre. Instead, the trillions left at the centre are now used for populist reasons. You will hear them say things like, “ nimekuja kuwapatia barabara ” or “ nimekuja"
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