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    "content": "“Any law, including customary law, that is inconsistent with this Constitution is void to the extent of the inconsistency, and any act or omission in contravention of this Constitution is invalid.” The same Constitution in Article 96(3) states as follows:- “The Senate determines the allocation of national revenue among counties, as provided in Article 217 and exercises oversight over national revenue allocation to the county governments.” I have cited these two articles of the Constitution because these Standing Orders, when you look at the sessional committees and departmental committees, nowhere did the team that was preparing them contemplate a committee that would oversight in accordance with the Constitution. As we are now, if we do not invoke Standing Order No. 244 whereby the Rules and Business Committee will then initiate the amendment of these Standing Orders, it means that the Rules and Business Committee will set up committees that have no oversight role over the county governments. How can we call ourselves as people who are over-sighting the county expenditure when we do not have a committee that we can use to invite the Auditor-General to come forward and table his report and through it we will invite the leader of the executive committee of the county government or the Governor himself so as to come and account for their expenditures? I am moving on this Standing Order to invite you that you direct that the rules and business committee immediately brings before this House an amendment to these Standing Orders so that we create an oversight committee that will be responsible for what I am saying."
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