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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "I agree with colleague Senators that have spoken before me that for one reason or the other, devolution, while it is still in its formative years, continues to experience various forms of challenges. If you travel across the country you will realise that the initial challenge that we had as a country when Kenya was just one unitary state without devolved units, was that certain parts of the country would develop faster than others; either because of the leaders and the people that have got the means of control, having come from certain regions or intentionally to frustrate certain regions because of their political persuasions. The reality of that is also happening in our counties. You understand how our political campaigns sometimes tend to be in our country where we have two or three protagonists in a political contest. When a Governor is still in the first term and wants to secure their base and constituency, they tend to neglect the parts of the county which are in wards that either did not vote for them or do not even stand the potential of voting for them. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is not even as more pronounced in certain counties as it is in those counties that do not have one homogeneous community living together. For example, in counties such as Migori, Bungoma and Baringo, you find certain sections of the county where a particular community occupies a very small size of the population. If they do not toe a particular political line, there is every possibility that the county government may go out of their way to frustrate development efforts. Therefore, somebody made a very good effort of the need to ensure that at least we ring- fence even if not all, a certain proportion of the funds that are meant for development in a particular county. This is to ensure that that all the wards in a particular county are, at least at the bare minimum, assured that in every budget cycle, every financial year there is meaningful development that will go to that ward. That is the idea that informs this Bill."
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