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    "id": 855068,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "This Bill is extremely important and a game changer in matters devolution. Therefore, we need to treat it with extreme importance. Despite it being fairly urgent, there are a few things that, unless properly addressed, I personally will be not be very comfortable supporting it. At the moment, I agree with the framework of the drafters on what they want to achieve. Various Members have gone into it. It will be important to note that at the beginning of this year, when I was writing my new years‟ resolutions. As we normally do, part of the legislative things that I wanted to achieve was to pass a Public Private Partnerships Bill which would enable our county governments to enter into these kind of projects. When I requested for the drafting team, I was informed about this Bill that was before the National Assembly. I, therefore, shelved my desire to draft that law with the hope that when it eventually comes, it will address many of the challenges and things that were in my mind at that time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that one of the Senators pointed out that my county of Kericho was the first County to have a dispute between the assembly and the executive with regards to PPP projects; which eventually led to the impeachment of the Governor. Therefore, this is something that I have seen practically and I understand what PPPs can do for our county governments. This is in relation to our work, as defenders of devolution and people who are tasked with the responsibility of coming up with legislation that will ensure that the process of devolving power down to the people continues. This is because the people have a right to self-determination at the local level, where they can sit down and determine what is of priority. We had an opportunity to listen to presentations that were made before us, as a Committee, and I sat through a number of them. Many people who spoke to us were primarily concerned by the fact that there seems to be a particular obsession; that the national Government will always do better than the county governments, despite the fact that we are aware and alive to the fact that Kenya has two levels of Government. If the submissions and what we have been reading in the media lately about what has happened with the leased medical equipment is true, then the converse of that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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