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    "content": "is concurrent. Concurrent jurisdiction means that even when Mr. M. Kilonzo, a Senator for Makueni, is defending Makueni in the Senate, the Secretary for Agriculture in this House can also be moving laws. It will be our work to balance this. I suggest that it is very important for us to bear in mind the minds that I said that ‘we are still a unitary state”, but we are such a blessed country that our counties differ. In fact, I am not aware of any county that grows the same crop. They are very few. Maybe perhaps Kericho and Nandi or Kiambu, but normally you find that each county has challenges. Even if they are producing the same crop, the rainfall patterns are not identical hence this law. Look at what this law is called; the Minister is advancing a law for this country called “The Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Authority Bill”. I am convinced, beyond peradventure that the use of the word “Authority” reflects Article 186(2) on concurrent jurisdiction for purposes of setting policies, but of course, do not allow the Minister to encroach on the functions of agriculture in your particular county. Amend it so that it can be left for the county assembly, when it is established, to pass that law to enact it. To conclude, the important thing is that the county, as I read from Article 185, has the authority to make up a law pertaining to its own agriculture, but it cannot make a law for the neigbouring county. If we appreciate that, then we should look at this law from that perspective."
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