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    "id": 1089463,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to move that the Office of the County Printer Bill (Senate Bills No. 13 of 2021) be read a Second Time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I had expressed earlier, this Bill had been brought to this House by myself in 2018 in this Parliament. However, it had also been canvassed in the previous Parliament noting the importance of the Bill to devolution and the challenges that the practitioners of devolution are going through in trying to publish their writes ups. Public participation was intensively done on this Bill and some of the deliberations that had been made then as well as objection that had been expressed by the National Government Printer have now been looked at, expressed and reviewed in the new Bill before we republished it for consideration. Some of the concerns that were raised by the National Government Printer is that there would be a lot of duplication of work. In Section Six of this Bill, we have said that there will be coordination and liaison with the Office of the National Government Printer to avoid duplication. They will also be reporting to the National Council for Law Reporting. Those are issues that had not been captured in the Bill previously in the Bill that we had published. However, those two issues have now been included. I thank Sen. Omogeni who has this afternoon given his Statement on the court process where unfortunately the Senate is embroiled with the National Assembly on this issue of Bills. I thank our lawyers who are engaged in court trying to protect the Senate and devolution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the principle object of this Bill is to establish the office of the county printer in each of the 47 counties. The establishment of this office is necessitated by the provisions of the County Governments Act 2012 which keeps making reference to the publication of Bills, Acts and other documentation in a county gazette. However, the"
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