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    "id": 78515,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/78515/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The hon. Imanyara of course, read the Economist and he is fully aware of the assessment. His concern was about increasing the CDF. The country will not develop purely on the basis of allocating resources for CDF to constituencies. We have now agreed that we are devolving and the structure that we have is a devolved system of Government. We have devolved now to the counties and resources are going to go to the counties; a minimum of 15 percent. Depending on how the capacity is going to be built, those resources will be increased progressively as the country moves on. My view is that what we are trying to do with CDF is to ensure that resources go down to the people and I know that CDF was just a start. Now, it has been properly institutionalized in the Constitution, so resources are going to go down to the grassroots for the purposes of providing services at the grassroots. So, those funds do not necessarily have to be called CDF. We can increase allocation to the counties; still, we will be taking funds down there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. M’Mithiaru is concerned about corruption just like hon. Wamalwa and, of course, they have endorsed the stand that has been taken by the President and the Prime Minister. They are concerned about steps that have been taken by the executive to ensure that those who have been mentioned in corruption step aside. This language of stepping aside is now influential in our country; any time somebody mentions your name, you are asked to step aside, even if there is no proper evidence. Once investigations are carried out, then the argument is that somebody is then accused. If we say that anybody whose name is mentioned must step aside, we will be running a country on the basis of malice, where anybody can wake up in the morning and make wild allegations---"
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