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    "content": "reviewed so that many more of our urban centers are able to fall within the criteria of urban cities and municipalities. I rise to oppose the disbandment of the Transition Authority that is captured in the Bill. We have a lot of expectations on the Transition Authority. We had expectations that the Transition Authority would help us to un-pack devolution. We had a lot of expectations that the Transition Authority would help us track the assets that are in our counties. At this point, allow me to thank the former President, hon. Mwai Kibaki, for having set up the co-ordination mechanism in our counties through the offices of County Commissioners. What we had not foreseen all of us with the devolution is the appetite that the governors would come with. When governors came in, many of them wanted to share the assets that are in our counties. It is in fact the County Commissions who stopped the governors from taking over some of the assets of the national Government that would have been laid to waste. One of the expectations on the Transition Authority is related to the assets that are available in our counties and that belong to the Government and has, over time, been misused. So, as I oppose the disbandment of the Transition Authority, it is with the view that some of these tasks that are in the law are still to be done. We need to fund the Transition Authority; we need to allow it to continue. It has a limited period in law and it needs to perform its functions. It needs to unbundle the functions that remain to be sorted out in the counties. By disallowing the amendments on the Transition Authority, we will be saving that Authority so that it can continue with its work. The inter-governmental committee that is envisaged to come in, can come after the term of the Transition Authority. We disallow the amendment. Let the Transition Authority finish its work and then, at a particular point in time, as the Transition Authority is no longer in operation, we can have the inter-governmental committee. I say this as somebody from Nyeri County, where we have a Level 5 hospital. We are still hoping that this Assembly will find a solution to the funding of Level 5 hospitals in our counties. It is one of the functions that still remain to be unbundled within the wider devolution concept, and the Transition Authority will continue to work on that. I support the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, but I do not support the disbandment of the Transition Authority. I urge that the particular clauses that relate to the disbandment of the Transition Authority are deleted from this Bill. The rest of the laws that are modernizing the laws that have been passed by this House are allowed to continue. I thank you hon. Speaker and do support with the condition that the Transition Authority is not disbanded."
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