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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "I would want to put this to the Committee. I may not necessarily bring amendments, but I would want the Chairperson of the Committee, who has gracefully stayed this far, just to look at it. Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah spoke about Article 186 and Schedule 4 of the Constitution that provides the respective functions and powers of the national Government and county governments. What I notice in the architecture of this Bill is that it does not stay true to that because you give a lot of powers to the national Government even in terms of establishment and make the counties subservient to the national Government. It does not take into account what the framers of the Constitution intended when they were coming up with this Constitution. We are still having a very centralised approach when we are coming up with this. Maybe that is something you want to look at. Another issue of concern is that of the officers cited here such as the county directors. They have no clear qualifications and when we have officers who have no clear qualifications, it becomes very easy to manipulate and those are the people who are dealing with a lot of money and investment. If you have people who do not have clear qualifications, then it means people will use people they can easily manipulate."
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