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    "id": 911669,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/911669/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "captures the spirit and seeks to solve some of the problems that affect project implementation in the counties. If you look at the first two recommendations, the Motion seeks to ensure that the CIDPs are aligned to our national vision. We have one nation with quite a number of governments. In our Constitution and the manner in which our nation is structured, we need to move uniformly and in a structured way. We do not want to have a nation where part of it moves east, another part moves west, another part moves south and yet another part moves northwards. If we talk about access to universal health, we need to move in a structured way and in a manner that all counties benefit. If we talk about food security, it is important that all parts of the country move at the same speed and in one direction, so that ultimately we achieve what is called equal development and progress in all fronts that are prioritised in the Vision 2030 and other programmes like the Big Four Agenda that have been put forward. In order to solve the issue of hackneyed or unstructured development, it is important to have some harmonisation. The primary document that would advise how we align our programmes should be the Vision 2030. Other county development programmes should be individual programmes for the counties, so that all of them fit into that. Secondly, it is important that all projects that were commenced are completed and made available for public use. Having a lot of money and putting it into projects that do not serve the public after passage of a long time gets us into trouble. The kind of trouble is what is called value for money. If you go to my County of Migori, there is one stadium that Migori County government has been pumping money into year in, year out. Pumping of money commenced with the advent of devolution. This is the seventh year and not a single football match, athletics activity or sporting event has been held in the stadium. That is Migori Stadium in Suna West Constituency which we should take pride in as the people of Migori County because that is our only stadium. The whole project has stalled. Money has been used but it has not been put to any form of use to date. There are several Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions which should be under the national Government. There is one in Nyatike Constituency, one in Suna East Constituency, one in Suna West Constituency, one in Uriri Constituency, one in Awendo Constituency and another one in Rongo Constituency. The way the TVETs are structured, there ought to be partnership between the national and county governments with a clear objective that technical and vocational training of the youth should be available to residents of a county like Migori. This is the seventh year and we have been bragging that devolution is working. Not a single child has benefited from those projects. They are incomplete and there is no indication when they will be completed. There is no further indication when people may be recruited to make use of those facilities that have been abandoned. Some of them provide shelter for bats, birds and other wild beings, which is not what they were intended for. It is sad that in the seventh year of devolution, we still have projects that we have sunk millions and millions into but they provide homes for animals that do not need shelter. In the Bible, it is written that God takes care of them. We do not have to build such shelters for them."
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