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    "id": 262231,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/262231/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
        "slug": "judah-ole-metito"
    },
    "content": "Clause 28(2) deals with the issue of the recall of the County Assembly members. It states that it can only be initiated 18 months after the election of the County Assembly - that is quite in order - but we should also put a rider that it cannot be initiated maybe one year to the next general election. So, if it can only be initiated 18 months after the general election, then the unnecessary recall during the campaign period should be avoided. Maybe you can only initiate the recall from 18 months after the election to one year to the next general election. Clause 29(2)(b), still on the petition for the recall and even in (1), the petitioner should be a registered voter in that ward. It should also be a voter who voted in the last general election. This should engage Kenyans to vote. If you did not vote in the last general election, even if you are a registered voter, then you have no business initiating a recall of a County Assembly member. You should be a voter who voted in that ward in the last general election. That goes to 29(2) (d) whereby the register of 30 per cent of voters in that ward has to be listed. The 30 per cent should also have voted in that ward in the last general election to have a say on the County Assembly member recall or petition. Clause 40 is about the Executive Committee members of the Governor, being individually and collectively accountable to the Governor. They should also be accountable to the County Assembly. They should not only be accountable to the Governor, but to the County Assembly. My closing remark is about the removal of the member of the Executive Committee. There are several ways, according to this Bill, through which a member of the Executive Committee can be removed. One, by the governor for all those reasons listed down there and two, by a motion in the County Assembly supported by at least one third of all the County Assembly Members."
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