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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "example, from the national Government because part of what they do are responsibilities that are shared across the two levels of government. They also receive contributions which are informally set. I think it is an equitable amount from all the 47 county governments. With the establishment of the CoG secretariat in law, our county governments will make contributions without being offensive to the law. As they do it, it continues to raise audit queries in almost all our 47 county governments because they are donating to a body corporate that is foreign and alien to the operations of our law on devolution. With the passage of this Bill, that will be history. It will ensure that there are mandatory subscriptions from county governments and even donations to the CoG. There are many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), for example, that want to partner with the CoG in entrenching the beauty of devolution in our country by making sure that it succeeds and all the other forms and organs of that particular institution. Setting it up in law will assure those who want to work with these institutions have a good institution to work with that is set up in law whose leadership is known and agenda is clear. That way, people can donate. It also provides for the establishment of the County Assemblies Forum (CAF), its function, secretariat, sources of funding, as well as subscription from the county assemblies. I have mentioned why this is important. CAF is also a body corporate that needs to be the anchor link between the Senate and our county assemblies by ensuring that there is a standard practice and a reporting mechanism. I do not see why, for example, many of our committees in the county assemblies do not mimic or copy word for word how we do our reports. We have Offices of Speakers. If you go to many of our county assemblies – I am sorry to say this – you will find that the speaker is the law, which is not what our Constitution envisions. The Speaker should be an arbiter, just like the Speakers in the Houses of Parliament here. They do not decide. I follow what happens in many of our county assemblies. As a leader, I see"
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