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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to support and second this Procedural Motion. These two Bills – the Environmental Management and Coordination (Amendment) Bill, 2014 and the Public Service (Values and Principles) Bill, 2014 – relate to county governments and the National Assembly should do its part before the Bills are passed to the Senate. That is the core of the Procedural Motion. The Environmental Management and Coordination (Amendment) Bill 2014 is a voluminous Bill and it seeks to amend the current Environmental Management and Coordination Act of 1999, while the Public Service (Values and Principles) Bill 2014 is as a result of an Act of Parliament falling this year, being the sixth year. This is among the Bills that have constitutional deadlines. It is seeking to give effect to a provision within the Constitution cited by the Chair of CIOC, which is Article 232 of the Constitution, regarding the values and principles of public services. So, I want to make it very clear that under the presidential system the stakeholders involved in any legislation are bigger than the Executive. The Executive is just one of the stakeholders; this Parliament will not accept to rush Bills when we feel, from advice and written communication of the Chair of CIC, the Law Reform Commission and the Attorney General and other stake holders, that Bills still needs to be taken through stakeholder participation. That is why as the Chair said, it is our duty to deal with the ones that are ready and pass them on to the Senate. It will be upon the Senate to decide whether to comply with August 27th deadline or not. Those which are still at the stakeholder participation stage will come back to the House, and we seek extension of time. These three Bills, plus the Bill of hon. (Ms) Odhiambo-Mabona, which has fallen within the category of constitutional Bills--- We felt that if we reduce the publication period, then our Committees can burn the midnight oil and the House can dispose of them before August 27th and pass them to the Senate through a message; the Senate has an obligation just like the National Assembly. If they do not comply with August 27the deadline--- I hope my colleagues out there know the repercussions. A person can go to court and that might be an easier way of dissolving the Senate. I am just trying to advise on what lies ahead. That is why the Chair of the Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee has brought a procedural Motion. I am sure that similar leadership in the other House alive to the fact that the repercussions are very serious if either of the Houses does not meet the constitutional deadline of August 27th. I beg to second."
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