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    "content": "involved in approving such levies. If we give all the authority to the Cabinet Secretary or to the Authority without Parliament approval, it may reach a situation where some of those levies are not tenable and you may need either Parliamentary or Senate approval or actually the county assembly approval for such levies. When you read the Bill, you can see that so much power has been left with the Cabinet Secretary and less to the county government and yet, when I read the Constitution, the functions of the national Government vis-a-vis the county government on the Fourth Schedule, I think the role of the national Government is just left to making agricultural policy. The first function of the county government is actually agriculture itself. So, why should it be that the levies go to the national Government when it is the duty of the county governments to produce? My own understanding is that once the people produce, the levies should be done by the county government. Maybe, a small proportion can be remitted to the national government. Otherwise, in this situation we are turning the county government to be just producers, while the beneficiary is the national Government. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another clarification I would like to get from the Minister is, now that we have an overall board to supervise the agricultural sector, what happens to the other boards, for example, the Tea Board of Kenya and the Coffee Board of Kenya? Will they be relevant under these circumstances? Under this situation I can see that this new Authority will be the one to do the licensing. At the moment that is the work of the Tea Board of Kenya in the case of tea. Are we rendering such boards irrelevant? If so, can we state it very clearly here in the Bill that those boards have also become completely irrelevant? Otherwise, I want to thank the Minister and the Ministry for coming up with this progressive Bill. I am sure when we get to the Committee Stage we will be coming up with one or two proposals to beef up the Bill."
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