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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, having talked about the issue of funding and structures, allow me to mention something about oversight. This is found in Clause 10. In this clause, there is an attempt to suggest how oversight will be done. You are trying to incorporate the National Assembly and, at the same time, you are trying to incorporate the senate and the county assembly. This is all very well. However, what does the Constitution say? The Constitution of Kenya says that the Member of Parliament will represent the constituents of his constituency. The senator under the Constitution will represent the County Government. Therefore, it goes without saying that if the senate represents the County Government then the oversight over the County Government should be done squarely by the senate. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important so that we check a situation whereby governors want to become rogue, so that the powerful President we had in Nairobi arrives in Kakamega in the name of the Governor of Kakamega County. We would like these governors forever to know that the senate is there 24 hours, watching and prepared to remove them in quick speed the way we have disciplined some Ministers in this House. This is a matter which cannot be over-emphasized. Let me now address myself to dispute resolution. In this Bill, the Minister says that dispute resolution be done in the way he has provided. It cannot fly. If the governor is at dispute with another governor, the person to resolve that dispute is the representative of this county which is at dispute with this other county, but the matter being brought in the senate, so that the senators can sit and arbitrate that particular dispute. In the absence of that then, the only other organ that will make sense would be a court process. But we do not want our County Governments to take each other to court. So, the Senate is there. It should be the one to preside over this business. How do you go about it? I believe that we will, in the Standing Orders provide for a special standing committee within the summit that will be specifically for dispute resolution."
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