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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "should be paid serve on a full-time basis? Let us assign functions to these agencies, dissect them and justify the need for us to make it a full-time agency. Madam Temporary Speaker, you are a lawyer and you know there exists the Law Reform Commission (LRC) in this country. I am yet to hear or see proposals in the National Assembly or this Senate from the LRC on legislation. The LRC was put there to purposely modernise our laws in resonance with the new Constitution and update our laws so that we migrate from how the laws had been structured under the old constitution to the new Constitution. However, the LRC is just there, not bringing those proposals. It, therefore, calls for this debate. I do not want to speak for too long; let me just make one last comment in seconding this Bill. Clause 20(a) speaks to funding of the council. We are being told that: “(a) annual subscriptions by county governments; and (b) such monies as may be lawfully granted or donated to the Council”. If we leave it this way, we run a risk of having an agency that is facing a drought of funds and its functions will be poorly carried out. If it is an intergovernmental agency, why are we asking the county governments alone to make those subscriptions? After asking the county governments to make the subscriptions, we must also ask the national Government, because it is intergovernmental. It means that the national Government and the county government should both make subscriptions. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I wish to second. I thank you."
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