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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will connect this point to my second point of funding. Since the President during the day of the summit has no other Kenyan President who he wants to consult with, he is only sitting with the Governors of the County Governments, it makes sense for us to collapse the roles and convening of the two organs, so that it is only one organ. The wisdom of this is partly in the fact that we are now providing a cure for the trouble you are finding yourself in, in Clause 37. In Clause 37 - and I would like the Governors-in-waiting to listen to me carefully - there is trouble. The Minister does not know whether to charge from the County Government, the national Government or both. That is why you see in that particular Clause the Minister in Clause 37(a) wants to charge the national Government. In (b), he wants to charge the County Assembly. In (c), he wants to charge both and so on and so forth. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like the Minister to consider after accepting to collapse the two organs together that that charge be to the national Government alone. This is because if the national Government does not like the council to meet, the national Government will starve it of funds. If it does not succeed in dictating that, it will provide for revenue during estimates in such a manner that the money is not enough to do comprehensive meetings. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to beg my colleagues who will be running for Governor - I will be running for Senator - that when we were contemplating the new Constitution, at that time, most of us did not know that one day we would become governors and maybe become senators. So, there was a feeling in Naivasha even during the consultations we had at the Kenya Institute of Administration that power was being taken away from Members of Parliament. So, there was an element of resistance. This is the time for us to give every Kenyan, wherever he will be performing, a role to play; that role to be a role that will be effective both in terms of performance and in terms of cutting costs."
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