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    "content": "worried. Mombasa County is one of my other counties, but I will not tell you why. I had a lot of hope for Mombasa County. However, when I went there, I found that nothing has changed. In fact, what the Governor could have started with and impressed all of us, was to address the issue of raw garbage in Bombolulu. Do you know what the Governor has done? He has erected along the highway a metallic fence and put billboards. If you are a tourist, as you drive to the five star hotels in the North Coast, you will be reading the billboards and not see the garbage. But I was shocked to see the garbage. I saw that the children, cows, chicken and pigs were still there. It is so pathetic. I am hoping that the Committee that will go to the Coast will find time, under “Any Other Business” (AOB), to ask the Governor to tell them where they are now, as they ask for this and that function. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important that I remind my colleagues here the experience that I had in the last Parliament about this. The National Assembly which was doubling up as the Senate, happened in the last year to have done more about devolution than the Senate which is a stand-alone House today, has done in the last ten months. That is the truth. The person to blame is not the Senators. Where is the Kenya Law Reform Commission? Where is the Constitution Implementation Commission (CIC), the Office of the Attorney General and the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Constitutional matters? They are supposed to be bringing here Bills concerning counties, so that we debate and consider them for us to give effect to the Constitution of Kenya. My dear colleagues, time is moving. The Constitution is very specific in the Fifth Schedule. These days we are stuck in the Fourth Schedule. But if you go to the Fifth Schedule, the Constitution has put clear timelines. Somebody is waiting again for us to remain with two or three months before those timelines expire, before making us to start working up to the middle of the night, for us to make shoddy decisions. This is the time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to give special tribute to Martha Karua. When she was Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, she not only did a lot towards what I am talking about, but also gave us the most difficult thing; that is, the roadmap to the Constitution making. The people that Martha Karua was using when she was Minister, those that Mutula Kilonzo was using when he was Minister and Eugene Wamalwa used when he was Minister, are still there. I know of an eminent lawyer and friend called Joash Dache who authored most of the devolution Bills which we passed and are working. Today Joash Dache is still the Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Law Reform Commission. Why are they sleeping on the job? Why are they not bringing Bills? Ladies and gentlemen, let us not sleep on this one, but do what they are failing to do. We should bring those Bills ourselves. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me give you an example."
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