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    "id": 585571,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "transferred, or whether the county governments have enough capacity to perform certain functions. That is the bone of contention. The National Assembly felt that the transfer of functions to county governments should be done gradually based on the capacities of individual county governments, but the Senate deleted it. The senators argued that was not a mandate of the National Assembly. The same Senate wants to go to a referendum and take over the mandate of the National Assembly. I see the actions of the Senate to be very contradictory but that is for the people of Kenya to decide. On the Senate’s proposed amendments to Section 54 of the County Governments Act, 2012, I agree with them. Section 54 was introduced to the Act by the National Assembly to create a consultative forum within the county governments, to be headed by the governors and have representation from all heads of department and the leadership. The Senate seems to disagree with the National Assembly – something on which I also agree with the Senate. We are aware that this matter was canvassed in a court of law, which suspended the provisions. As such, it is only fair that we agree with the Senate’s proposal to delete this section. I disagree with the amendment proposed by the Senate to delete new Sub-section 139 of the County Governments Act. The hon. Members of this House made this provision in order to allow the county governments to continue imposing rates and charges while awaiting the passage of their respective Finance Bills and other laws relating to imposition of charges by county assemblies. For that reason, I disagree with the Senate’s proposal to delete this clause. The clause was introduced by the National Assembly in order to provide a lifeline whenever passage of the county Finance Bill is delayed. The action of the National Assembly was in anticipation of a situation where county governments delay the passage of their respective Finance Bills – a safeguard measure should be put in place to enable them raise the various taxation measures. Again, the Senators disagreed with the National Assembly on this one. This occurs very often. Even the National Assembly delays the passage of the Division of Revenue Bill and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. So, I disagree with the Senate. I agree with the National Assembly because it provided a safeguard measure against a scenario where the county assemblies, in their shenanigan behaviour within the county governments, delay the passage of the County Finance Bills. Hon. Speaker, I agree with the proposed amendments to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority Act---"
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