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    "id": 1123895,
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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": "whereas the interest of the county government is efficient delivery in services. It is because of that, that we have proposed that we have this County Leaders Forum. Sen. (Eng.) Hargura having been here in the last Parliament has recalled some of the cynicism that greeted this Bill in its original form when Sen. Sang’ brought it up. He has also expressed his fears that the Council of Governors (CoG) will quickly rush to court to seek to defeat this amendment. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as somebody said, I think it was Sen. Olekina that the guilty are always afraid. Accountability is not an option. Accountability on the part of state officers and public officers is mandatory and part of the job description. Anyone who does not want accountability should perhaps go and start a private enterprise which still has to be opened up for purposes of compliance to legal provisions such as the tax code. The county governors cannot claim that consultation on development in counties is exclusive to them. This Bill does not assign a development role to the CLF. It assigns a consultation and coordination role. What was offensive in the initial proposal was the inclusion of the County Integrated Development Plan. (CIDP); making it a requirement that the CIDP would first be considered by this board before it is taken to the assembly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I agree with the thinking that it is the duty of the executive to come up with the CIDP and the duty of the county assembly to approve it and approve budget. This forum is not taking that duty away from the county executive and county assembly. We are saying that once the county has its CIDP and budget and the national Government has its development plan and its budget. Let us find where there could be overlaps. Let us find ways of ensuring that those overlaps are ironed out. Sen. (Eng.) Hargura has given an excellent example of mitigation in response to drought in Northern Kenya. You will find one government agency doing water dams and another doing cash transfers. The county government distributing beans and maize. It is duplication that is not of any benefit to the people who are supposed to accrue the dividends from the Government. Those are some of the scenarios that this CLF will help. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, each county could have its own pet subject. If you go to Murang’a County, perhaps what captures the hearts and souls of the people of Murang’a County is the dairy industry. You can see the county government of Murang’a has put a lot of effort in reviving the dairy industry. What would be wrong if all the leaders from Murang’a County were to meet and say that our legislative agenda as a people from our region is the dairy sector? Then making sure that the dairy sector is efficient and it is paying farmers. What would be wrong is the leaders from Homa Bay County said that our business is fish. We want you Members of Parliament (MPs) from this region to ensure that relevant legislation on fisheries sector is enacted. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what is wrong if the people at the counties of coast say that our core business is tourism or ports and logistics? We want you to have a common legislative agenda whether you are in the Senate or National Assembly. We want to ensure that the legislation that relates to logistics and ports in this country is favourable to our region. That is what this forum seeks to achieve. The national Government tends to intervene in counties. Now the national Government has got structures where its development initiatives within a county would"
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