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    "id": 1119655,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "It was the good Senator for Laikipia who did all the necessary conception and the Senator of Homa Bay did all the necessary action for delivery. It is a fairly straightforward matter. I am glad that the Senator for Nairobi City County and future Governor is here because some of the issues that prompted this amendment originated from Nairobi City County. The Intergovernmental Relations Act gives further effect to Article 187 of the Constitution and provides some procedures for transfer of functions. However, the Act says that the county assembly and Parliament shall be notified of a decision to transfer. In the matter of Nairobi City County going by the current Act, the Nairobi County Assembly was notified of the transfer after the deed of transfer had been executed. Was the law broken? Probably not. Perhaps it was bent, but not broken. All that was required was notification of the County Assembly. It is interesting that even though the deed of transfer was signed on 25th February, 2020, public participation on the matter was undertaken on 4th of March, 2020. This was several days after the deed of transfer had been executed and the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) established. The case of Nairobi City County was Executive-driven. There was a belated involvement of the County Assembly, absolutely not involvement of the Senate or Parliament and public participation was done to tick boxes rather than to provide ingredients into the deed of transfer. What was transferred from the Nairobi City County Government to NMS was the functions of health, transport, public works and utilities, planning and development had been assigned close to Kshs16 billion in the budget of the county for Financial Year 2019/2020. This was an extremely significance transfer of duties, responsibilities from one level of government to the other."
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