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    "id": 1123810,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "The amendment in this case is that within three months, the County Executive shall submit the annual performance report to the county assembly and to the Senate for consideration. What I foresee is that when this becomes law, we might want to establish a standing Committee of this House whose sole purpose will be to look at the annual performance reports coming from the Counties. The same way we have the CPAIC looking at the annual financial reports coming out of the counties. That would be a good building block for the proactive oversight that we wish the Senate would undertake. Madam Deputy Speaker, allow me to spend time on the first objective – the establishment of the County Leaders Forum (CLF). This amendment seeks to introduce Section 91(a) because the current Section 91(a) was declared unconstitutional. This section was establishing County Development Boards what I called the Sang Bill. Article 96 on the role of the Senate, the very first role of the Senate is to represent the counties, to represent their interests and the interests of their Governments. People think that the Senate’s role is purely oversight just like any legislature. Oversight is our fourth role. The first role is representation. The second one is participation in law making. I had an interesting conversation with Members of the National Assembly about the manner in which Article 92 is crafted, that we only participate in law making and that then makes us the ‘lower’ House. If you look at Article 95, it says the National Assembly enacts legislation. It looks like we just come in at some point. We do not have originality in law making, but that is for another day. Madam Deputy Speaker, the third role is to determine allocation of revenue. As I said, the fourth role is oversight. We have spent a lot of time strengthening our oversight tools. However, we have not done much to strengthen out tools of representation. How does the Senator of Uasin Gishu County get a brief from the County Government of Uasin Gishu? If maize and fertilizer as well as agriculture are the most important things in Uasin Gishu, how does the Senator get a brief so that when she goes to the Senate, she gets to address those issues? There are counties that have developed a fairly good framework of consultation. Unfortunately, most of them arise out of interpersonal relations. It depends whether the governor and the Senator are friends, or from the same political party. Even though we know that such friendships rarely last long. In many of our counties, we second gaze we say that as a Senator, I have got my own networks so I understand the needs of my people. Sometimes we bring an agenda before the Senate which is inconsistent with the priorities of the county government yet our first role is to represent the counties, their interests and of their governments. Madam Deputy Speaker, we are proposing that every county establishes a CLF. Hon. Sang proposed it and called it a County Development Board. However, it was struck out as unconstitutional for many reasons. Firstly, he proposed that the Board shall"
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