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    "content": "of the best Bills in terms of supporting devolution and I do not think there could be any better Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want to disabuse the notion that we are breaking the law, because as a House, we are guided by the Constitution, our own Standing Orders and the law of our land. If there is a Bill which is constitutional on all fronts, it is this Bill. This is because it is trying to give effect to the interface that the Constitution has created between the two levels of Government – the national Government and the county governments. That is why some of the membership of this county development boards are people whose mandate could be stretching in either of those distinct levels of Government. Article 6 (2) of the Constitution says that the two levels of Government – national and county governments – are distinct, but the next word is that they are also interdependent. They are distinct but interdependent. So, this Bill is providing the interdependence aspect of the two levels of government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, I want to also draw the attention of the nation to the purposes and objects of devolution, in particular, Article 174. I want to read it for clarity. Article 174 (a) reads:- “The objects of the devolution of government are—"
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