Ruto Chairs National, County Government Summit at State House

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President William Ruto on Monday chaired a National and County Government's Summit at State House in Nairobi. https://rb.gy/cf6z1r

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00:02 - Therefore, as will be--

00:04 - In the power of this foreign summit,

00:07 another important moment--

00:08 - --emphasizes that the national and--

00:10 - --and--

00:11 - --and cooperation.

00:13 This national value--

00:15 - Ladies and gentlemen, I believe

00:16 that our country's fortunes, to a decisive extent,

00:21 are dependent on how we manage the devolution of national power

00:26 and resources.

00:27 Devolution actually goes to our viability

00:33 as a political community, stability as a nation,

00:37 and sustainability as the collective socioeconomic project

00:41 of the people.

00:43 My support for devolution, therefore,

00:46 anchored on the understanding that the flourishing

00:49 of our grassroots is a precondition

00:52 to national economic transformation

00:54 and that bottom-up sharing of duties and benefits,

00:58 obligations, and rights is the fundamental common denominator

01:03 of both the devolved system of governance

01:06 and our bottom-up economic transformation agenda.

01:09 While devolution is a national value that

01:13 must inspire all our actions, devolved governments

01:17 are the focal points of the devolution project, whose role

01:22 becomes more and more vital as the full implication

01:26 of our constitutional dispensation becomes defined.

01:31 Whether and how we support, respect, uphold, and defend

01:36 devolution matters.

01:39 In the Declaration of the Republic,

01:40 the Constitution describes Kenya as a sovereign republic founded

01:45 on the national values and principle of governance

01:48 referred to in Article 10.

01:51 The first bundle of these values includes sharing and devolution

01:57 of power.

01:58 Article 6 describes our national territory in terms of counties

02:04 and then emphasizes that the national and county

02:07 levels of governments are distinct and interdependent

02:12 and required to conduct their mutual relations

02:16 on the basis of consultation and cooperation.

02:20 This is the philosophical foundation

02:23 of Chapter 11 of the Constitution,

02:25 which sets out the framework of devolved governance

02:29 in greater detail.

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