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    "id": 886324,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. In the interest of time, I second this Report. I highlight one of the pertinent issues that the Chairperson has pointed out. This Report is very informative. When I was going through it, I felt as if we are betraying the objectives of devolution. The drafters of our Constitution envisaged a situation whereby devolution was supposed to help the poor women, children and the citizens in the counties. However, as it stands right now, county governments are not prioritizing their projects right. In a county like Kakamega, we have seen an attempt by the county government to come up with a multimillion project of a governor’s residence almost 100 kilometres away from the headquarters. That means that we shall have to incur extra cost every evening for the governor to travel 100 kilometres to go and sleep in his residence far away from the headquarters. Again, in the morning, we will also incur cost of fuel and personnel to transport the governor back to the headquarters. How I wish we looked into this matter more seriously. We have the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) which was in court the other day and granted governors and their deputies house allowances. Why should these officers enjoy house allowance yet they build luxurious homes for them to shelter? Madam Temporary Speaker, I request that after the tabling of this Report, the big question should be what next? Will the resolution of this House be binding? Who will implement the recommendations by this Committee? This requires either a legislation or regulation to be adopted in this House so that it is binding. However, as it stands right now, it only ends at it being a Report. Therefore, I ask the Chairperson to think deep and devise mechanisms to implement this Report so that its resolutions are adopted by the relevant authorities. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have been looking at how county assemblies have been funded by the executive. We need to help them because they do not have the relevant experts to approve their designs, for example, engineers, designers or people who will make a follow up on the construction that they have done. I suggest that the element of development in county assemblies be given back to the executive because we do not have capacity in our respective county assemblies to ensure that they implement development and infrastructure."
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