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    "id": 262229,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Coming to the Bill, I want to start with Clause 4, which talks about every county enacting legislation prescribing county symbols. This has been said by many speakers, but I just want to put a rider that the issue of the county symbols, for example, the county flag, there is no need of having a mosaic of flags across the 47 counties. County governments will really implement mostly the policies or directions from the national government and even the county flags should more or less be uniform all over the 47 counties. Maybe slight differences should just come with the names of the counties if they will be prescribed on the flag. That is for purposes of having uniformity across the counties. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clause 7 is about the composition of the County Assembly. When Dr. Khalwale was contributing, he said that among the Members of the County Assembly should be the Senator, so that he can sit in the County Assembly chambers and even if not, participate in debate, listen to how revenue for that county is planned to be spent. If you take the constitution of the current county councils, the Members of Parliament from those county councils are e-officials. So, I would like to add a rider that it is not only the Senator who should sit from time to time in the County Assembly, but also all the elected Members from that county, for example, the women representative and the Members of Parliament from the county, should not be treated as strangers in the County Assembly where they come from. They may not engage in active debate, but from time to time, they may be in the chambers and get to know what is happening in that county. Clause 9(2) deals with the issue of the role of the County Assembly. I have an issue with what it says that a member of the County Assembly shall not be directly or indirectly involved in the management affairs of that county. The members of the County Assembly may not be directly involved in the executive function of the county government and its administration, but it is very different as elected members of that County Assembly not to be indirectly be involved in the management and administration affairs of that County Assembly. That “indirectly” needs to be looked into. Clause 20 is about the procedure of exercising legislative powers. Clause 20(3) says that:- “In case of a power Bill, the County Assembly may proceed only in accordance with the recommendations of the relevant committee of the County Assembly after taking into account the views of the County Executive Committee member responsible for finance”."
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