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    "content": "Reduced Implementation Cost Prototyping (RICOP). This is where you give the people an opportunity to demonstrate that the cost can actually come down by liberalising the sector. However, where is competition in the Government to Government deals with the Chinese because this is a liberal market? In the process, our debts continue to soar and our marginal debt is now close to Kshs5 trillion. We then have a Bill here which our colleagues in the National Assembly look at as if it is a cake they need to share. They come and tell us to create Kenya National Secondary Roads Authority (KNSRA) – or whatever it is called – and then they share money equally amongst 290 disparate geographical areas. We need to be serious as a country! Madam Temporary Speaker, the issue of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) and how to ensure we get private equity to enable our country to develop has not been addressed properly in this Bill. On the issue of the Fuel Levy Fund, governors appeared before the Committee on Finance and Budget and said that they had agreed with the Executive to increase it from 15 to 25 per cent. This is, again, another area of contestation because we will continue having a tug of war. I do not know whether it is the lack of imagination, but counties cannot construct roads. However, I see a very serious aspect of cartelism, where some people feel as if whatever they have been doing before is being taken away. I see Government bureaucrats who always engage in what I call “empire-building tendencies,” not wanting to cede ground and, as a result, actually stifling the development of our counties. We must remind them that devolution is not something that you can just wish away. It has happened and it is a product of our own consensus that is domiciled within the very provisions of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, I implore this House to reject this Bill as it is. We need to have a consensus. We cannot pass this Bill for the sake of being a rubberstamp of the Executive and the National Assembly."
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