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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chanzu",
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        "id": 11,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "This is an aspect that needs to be addressed. Clause 11 of the Bill talks about the functions of the technical committee which shall be responsible for the day to day administration of the activities of the summit and in particular facilitate activities of the summit and implement the decisions of the summit, take over the residual functions of the transition entity established under the law relating to devolved governments after the dissolution of such entity. I am looking at a situation whereby this will involve all that goes on that has to come from down and then it gets to a level at which these technical committees will be functioning. If there are any changes that we need to make or amendments that we need to propose, we need to do them at this stage so that we can sort out whatever shortcomings that may be in the Bills. Clause 52 of the County Governments Bill talks about further decentralization. I am going to bring amendments to these laws that we are discussing now, so that we can deal with that matter which has been left hanging in the main Constitution and also under Clause 52 of the County Governments Bill. Because the Bills are related, I am going to bring an amendment to establish village units within the wards administered by a village administrator. I am also going to bring an amendment on the appointment of the village elders. The Constitution contemplated in Article 176 that we must work out units as to the level where they can be functional for the service delivery that is anticipated. Also, there is going to be a section to deal with the qualifications of those village elders in that amendment. We are also going to develop a criterion which is going to come as an amendment for the establishment of those village units. Those are the amendments that I want to bring. There is an aspect in these Bills - because of the relationship between the Bills - which we also need to amend. In the earlier Bill, there is an aspect which we will have to look at, which is related to this Bill, because all these technical committees in various places will have to deal with the issues to do with this devolution."
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