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    "id": 797884,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think that we came out feeling like victors. We did not lose because of the pitch. If anyone would come here and say that we lost because the pitch was horrible, that would be a liar. He would be like a farmer who blames his equipment. This is because there is a beautiful stadium built in Kakamega; Bukhungu Stadium. It was built using public funds that we keep sending to the counties on a regular basis. There are pockets of success but there are also pockets of despair. If I was to host a devolution conference in my county of Homa Bay, I do not know where we will play football because we do not have a stadium yet we get almost equal amounts of money as Kakamega. If someone was to fall sick when I am hosting a devolution conference, I would not know where to take them because there is nothing to show for the investments in the referral hospital. The fishermen in my county have no fish processing plants. The mango and the pineapple farmers have no factories to process their mangoes. Devolution is going to produce South Korea’s and counties that will reach to the levels of Singapore but it will also produce counties that will remain at the level of Haiti, Chad, Somalia and South Sudan. It is upon us, as the Senate, Senators andleaders from these counties to spur and encourage our governors and assemblies to make the right decisions so that our counties do not become South Sudan’s for they can become Singapore’s. I disagree with the President on the 56 per cent increment that he was proud of for there is no reason to celebrate. That 56 per cent is a reflection of the transfer of functions to the counties progressively over the years. Functions are being transferred slowly by slowly and to date, the roads function has not been fully transferred and neither have the libraries, ferries and harbours. I come from a county that borders the lake and I know that issues to do with ferries are still being managed from the centre. As we transfer all the functions envisaged in the Constitution, the increment should be above 56 per cent. In fact, with full transfer of functions, counties should not be getting Kshs300 billion but they ought to be getting at least Kshs600 billion even if we are still benchmarking with the last audited account which is 2013/2014. That increase is not the achievement of an administration but a reflection of the work that the Senate has been doing to make sure that functions are transferred and as those functions are transferred, they are followed with funds. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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