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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to partly support the Bill. The bit that I support is the logic and practicality behind the difficulties we face from time to time in terms of movement of goods and services. On the other hand, there is a problem of uniformity. As I have said before, we are over legislating for counties. In my view, the issue of uniformity is unconstitutional. The spirit of the Constitution is that we are diverse. We need to do things in the best interest of the local situations that counties find themselves in. Every single time we come up with legislations that set uniformity and dictate what counties do, in my view, it is not good for the counties and for the House. The Constitution requires that as much as the counties are interdependent, they are also separate. We have 48 governments and they offer all manner of services. It is true that counties exist in their own geographies, but they do not exist in isolation. They exist in relation to others. They have to relate with others. However, that kind of legislation needs to be left to the county assemblies of each particular county government to come up with, so that they legislate on how to relate with other counties in terms of movement of goods and services. We are not getting one element right and it needs to be checked. This is not the first Bill that talks about issues of uniformity or that tries to set certain things for the county The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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