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    "id": 1462392,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I wish the Senate Majority Leader was here when I am making my submissions. Let me begin by supporting this Bill. I think this is a very important Bill though I have a few concerns, which of course, I will raise. For the last 12 years which the CoG has been in place, it has been operating illegally. If you look at the current Statute, which is now currently being amended, it sets the Intergovernmental Relations Agency as the Secretariat of the CoG. I have a big problem with setting up this CoG in Statute if it does not respect the existing Act. I am concerned that in these new amendments, which are being proposed by the Senate Majority Leader, a CoG is being established and the funding for it is being sought from the sharable revenue. We sit in this House to divide money between county governments. When that money goes to the county governments, the Assemblies considers the budget for the Executive. Then now, we are introducing another monster in the room whereby, the Assembly will be sitting down and setting some money aside from their own budget to subscribe to this new CoG or Council of Assemblies Forum."
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