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    "id": 405063,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clause immediately after clause 2- 3. The principal Act is amended in section 91 by deleting paragraph (f). The principal Act, which is the County Government Act, under Section 91 (f) provides that the county Government will establish avenues for elected leaders not limited to Senators and Members of the National Assembly to contribute in the running of the county Government. The clause in the principal Act suggests that the responsibility of bringing together all the elected leaders to contribute on matters affecting counties would be the responsibility of the county Government itself. If you remember, when we discussed this Bill during the Second Reading, we all agreed that nine months down the line, no county Government has already established a framework for all the elected leaders in the counties. Therefore, the importance of this amendment is to establish this platform for elected leaders at the county level to discuss and contribute to the running of counties, and to exclude it from being the responsibility of the county Government. We as a House are providing the platform in this amendment through the County Development Board. So, we do not want a situation whereby we have established the County Development Board and tomorrow, a county Government out there decides to create another parallel platform for all the other elected leaders. So, we are amending this to provide that the County Government Development Board as proposed in this amendment will be the only platform for all the elected leaders at the county level to the exclusion of any other platform that the county Government may mischievously decide to establish. That is the import of the new clause."
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