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    "id": 886254,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "The earlier legislative proposal had come up with some structures for identification and implementation of projects; structures that we felt were going to be expensive and a duplication of already existing structures. Madam Temporary Speaker, my conviction about this Bill is that if county governments were to do what is required of them by the Constitution, the County Governments Act, and the PFM Act, this Bill would be unnecessary. This is because the Constitution puts an obligation on county governments to ensure that development goes to the lowest level, which in this case is not the ward but the village. The Constitution makes it obligatory for public participation to be undertaken in the budget-making process. There is a principle of subsidiarity in the Constitution which, if observed, Senate would have no business legislating on ways of ring-fencing resources that go to wards. However, the reality is that all these things that we hope should be happening in counties are not happening."
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