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    "id": 863494,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863494/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13435,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
        "slug": "francis-kuria-kimani"
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    "content": "There is also a clause that says that county executive officers in counties should pass legislation in counties to enable this Bill and add provisions so that they give it meat. That should be tailor-made to suit these counties. This, if taken seriously by MCAs and the county executive officers, will ensure smooth running of our counties. With the enactment of the new Constitution, we created 47 governments. As a result we created different centres. If you take the issue of water as an example, we ended up with 47 ministries of water! That tells us, maybe as a House, that we need to come back and find out why we continue to hold parent Ministries at national Government for those functions that got devolved. If we have ministries of water in all the 47 counties and we say in our Constitution that water is a devolved function, why do we continue to have a Ministry of Water at national Government? When you go through these counties and constituencies, there is not even a single project that is supposed to be done by the national Government. Therefore, I am tempted to believe that most of the wastages we have in our wage bill is mainly in the Executive, especially because of duplication of roles. Health is devolved. So, we have 47 ministries of health across the 47 counties yet we still have a Ministry of Health at the national Government. How many ministries do they run? Talk about water, health and land. Maybe, we need to collapse these ministries at the national level to avoid the duplication of resources hence bring down the wastages that we see in duplication of roles between the national Government and the county governments."
}