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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Quickly, I want to talk about three things and I want to believe that they have not been spoken about before. First, we should understand that urban areas are miniature governments under county governments and they are supposed to have their own little governments. They are supposed to have their own funding and administrative arrangements. Considering the numbers that are proposed here, I have a problem with this given the fact that, there are some validation reports that had been done before, particularly by the former Ministry of Local Government. I remember when hon. Musalia Mudavadi was the Minister for Local Government, a very serious audit was done and many local authorities were found to be un-viable. When the 175 local authorities were validated, it was found that less than 70 were really viable. So, when we reduce the population that is required of an urban area, we are going to get back to the same problem or even much deeper problem than we had because we are likely to create more urban areas than the 175 local authorities that we had. This is a big problem in the Bill and it needs to be looked into in a very serious manner. The other thing is the whole issue of timing. As and when should we be talking about an urban or a municipality coming in. This is a big problem that we are experiencing now. There are areas which are qualified to be urban areas or municipalities but, for many of them, the governors have not upgraded them. This is something that needs to be considered very seriously. The other thing that I want to quickly get into is the whole issue of the Transitional Authority in terms of transfer of functions. There is a problem when you look at this in relation to what is being discussed at the moment about the county commissioners. The legislation is proposing that, at a certain moment, when a county does not have a legislation related to a function that has been transferred to it, then a national legislation needs to be put in place. The problem with this is that, when a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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