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    "id": 1089612,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "However, there are areas that can be improved. One area is who are the officials who have the legal duties to issue a gazette notice at the county level? According to this Bill, it is proposing the governor, some County Executive Committee (CEC) Members and the speaker. Some of those officials may be subject to adverse gazette notices. Take for instance an impeachment of a speaker or governor. Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, it goes without saying that a governor or speaker most likely will not gazette his own removal from office. Therefore, in such instances, we need to amend this Bill so that you either transfer that function to the national level where adverse gazette notices need to be signed. Otherwise they will most likely sit on those decisions and that will not happen. The second issue is publicity surrounding gazette notices. For a gazette notice to have some social, political and economic effect it needs to be publicized. We have looked at this Bill. It provides that these gazette notices can be in electronic form. The word used there is “may” meaning there is no legal compulsion for various counties to be gazetting these notices electronically. I would propose that we amend and drop the word “may” in its place we insert the word “shall”. This is so that these gazette notices can be available electronically. That way, we increase the number of people who can access these notices once this Bill becomes law. Mr. Speaker, Sir, another area we need to consider is who is going to foot the cost for establishing these offices. Is it the national Government or respective county governments? That needs to be expressly provided for. I would imagine it is respective county governments so that it does not entail an extra burden on the national Government. Finally, county governments play an important role particularly on matters agriculture. I come from an area that coffee and tea are very important in Murang’a County. Also, the people of Murang’a County are very good business people. Milk is also one of our most important agricultural products. I look forward to the day when this Bill will be law so that the CEC Member in charge of Agriculture in Murang’a County can print or issue a gazette notice as soon as possible whenever a progressive Bill concerning matters agriculture has been passed by the respective county assembly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also look forward to the passage of this Bill so that Murang’a County whenever there are issues concerning health that need to be gazetted, those issues can be done as soon as possible without awaiting ratification by the Government Printer here in Nairobi. That way, we will make Murang’a County more efficient and services to the people of Murang’a County will be easily available as opposed to making reference to an office that is way up here in Nairobi. As I finalize, when I look at Murang’a County Government the way it has been mismanaged and the problems it is currently having, I strongly believe that a government that is fully in charge of its affairs at that local level would definitely improve services at the county level. With those few remarks, I support but propose those amendments. Thank you."
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