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    "content": "proximate, easily accessible services throughout Kenya; (g) to ensure equitable sharing of national and local resources throughout Kenya; (h) to facilitate the decentralisation of State organs, their functions and services, from the capital of Kenya;” I re-emphaise Article 174(h). This Bill intends to effectuate this provision of the Constitution. It is the role of this Senate to ensure we decentralise resources away from Nairobi, the Capital of Kenya; away from Kisumu City, the headquarters of Kisumu County; away from Kisii Town, the headquarters of Kisii County to places such as Kebirigo and Keroka. We must decentralise those resources. In Murang’a, for example, we must move resources away from Murang’a Town and put those resources to the deeper ends of Aberdare Forest up to the farthest corner of a place called Boro. That is a village in Murang’a County near the Aberdare Forest in Kigumo Constituency. That is the intention of this Bill; to move away resources from the centre to the furthest corner of this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, let me now go to the policy underpinnings of this Bill. I cite His Excellency the Deputy President’s Speech at the Fifth Devolution Conference in Kakamega on 26th April, 2018 when it was being closed. He said that we need to move resources down to the grassroots level. I also cite the speech of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta which was made on 13th December, 2017 during the Council of Governor’s (CoG) meeting in Mombasa where he reiterated the Government’s intention and policy to move resources to the grassroots level. I also reiterate and highlight various reports and policy documents which I will rely on. I have the County Governments Budget Implementation Review Report, First Quarter of the Financial Year 2017/2018 that was made in December, 2017. The reports I will rely on bring the whole idea of the importance of ensuring that we have resources at the grassroots level. Again, I will rely on the Commission on Revenue Allocation’s (CRA) document on the Recommendations on the Basis for Equitable Sharing of Revenue between National Government and the County Governments for the Financial Year 2018/2019. That document was placed before the Clerk of the Senate through a forwarding letter dated 18th December, 2017. It was laid here as a Paper on 21st February, 2018 by the Senate Deputy Majority Leader. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will also rely on the Ministry Policy Document on Devolution which was published in 2016 to show the importance or what underpins this Bill that I seek to move today. This Bill also draws legal underpinnings from various laws; in particular we have the so-called, National Government Constituency Development Fund Act of 2017. This Bill is also inspired by the Controller of Budget Act of 2016, the County Governments Act, No.17 of 2012, the Public Finance Management Act, No.18 of 2012 and the Regulations that have been made pursuant to that law. Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to go to the next item on what this Bill provides for. This Bill is divided into several parts. Part I is preliminary where we interpreted various key aspects, showed the objects and purposes of this Bill and the 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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