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    "id": 949347,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/949347/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mugo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 85,
        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "This is meant for the national Government to control what is happening in the counties. This is an issue of development. Kenya is still a unitary State which has a Ministry of Devolution that is supposed to work with counties. We have to plan for the whole country and not just for a particular county. A county can develop using its own ways. There are issues, for example, of microeconomics and so forth, which touch on every county and the national Government. I really do not look at clause as if it is made in order to control; it is there for planning purposes. This is because even when we think of the international market place, Kenya is looked at as a unit. We will not have different counties registered in those international bodies, like the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the United Nations (UN). This is because such bodies are nationalistic and they look at a country from the national perspective. For planning purposes, surveys are done to figure out what numbers constitute the informal sector. When international surveys are being done, I think they would focus more on the national Government to supply such information. In that case, it is the Ministry of Devolution and ASAL Areas, as opposed to going to Kirinyaga, Homa Bay or Machakos to get that information. Therefore, I do not see any damage in that clause. I do not look at it as control. I rather look at it as collaboration, organization as a unitary country on another level, not necessarily on the management on the ground."
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