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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "would like us to go further. We must have targets for these NGOs and non-state actors wherever they come. The Bill also goes ahead to talk about how there will be a registry of providers that will be kept. That reflects on what I am saying, that we need to know who you are and go ahead to talk about the amount you have and how much you are going to spend on that activity. It will not only be enough that we will have NGOs and non-state actors coming to our regions to provide civic education, but we must also have their budgets. Those must be in the public know-how so that we can decide whether they are giving us value for money. The Bill will even help us support our people in knowing what are the devolved functions that they are entitled to and what are the services that they are entitled to. We have had this fear that functions sometimes were devolved from the national Government, but they were re-centralized again at the county headquarters. We would like our people to know that it is their right to get those devolved functions, that those functions were devolved from the national Government and they should further be devolved to the sub-counties and the wards so that our people access services and not run back for services to the county headquarters. This Bill is going to support that. Lastly, I support this Bill because it refers to the Bill of Rights; the rights to association, the right to assemble, the right to demonstrate, and the right to labour relations. This is a very noble Bill and all of us and the whole country should support it. It will have saved us a lot from the lack of knowledge of the rights of our people who cry or suffer because they lack knowledge of certain things that they are entitled to. The Constitution that we have talks about all these rights. We are here as representatives of the people, and so we must ensure that our people know, I, therefore, support this Bill, and I want to call upon all my colleagues in the Senate to support it so that our people have a right to education, which I have stated is an ongoing activity and never stops. When devolution was coming in in 2010, after voting, there was a lapse for a period in which the national Government had a duty even to give civic education on devolution. However, you and I and all of us know, that this never happened effectively and efficiently. It is for that reason that our people are still suffering from a lack of knowledge. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the County Civic Education Bill, 2024 as moved by Sen. Esther Okenyuri."
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