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    "id": 1250744,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the indulgence and the directions that you gave that we need a progress report. I laud your decision to allow this matter to give us a progress report. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we should endeavour to protect devolution under Article 96. One of the key devolved organs is the county assemblies. I laud the Committee for this positive progress. I hope your office and the Senate Leadership, both Majority and Minority, will ensure that when we retreat between the Council of Governors (CoG) and the Senate, we will continue to have this discussion. I proposed to the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations led by the Chairman, Sen. Abass, to transit these issues into the Committee of the Whole, where it will be chaired by Sen. Abass. That way, the leadership of the House, both Majority and Minority, and other colleagues who are not Members of the Committee, can sit here. Secondly, I have got the position of the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. We have several county assemblies that have adjourned s ine die. They are not on normal recess, but have adjourned indefinitely because of this matter. Thirdly, I would have expected that by now, SRC could have given us a timeline of engagement through the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. I do not want to call it “return to work formula” or a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), which is synonymous with workers. However, they could give us a take home, so that we avoid a situation where county assemblies are adjourning indefinitely. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we were with MCAs of several counties who were appearing before the Committee on Public Accounts and Investments. For example, Makueni County Assembly appeared before us yesterday and they indicated that in fullness of time, they might need to adjourn indefinitely."
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