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    "content": "We also need to see how in our work of protecting the county governments we are amending a law that stands as a dangerous existence as far as the laws of this nation are concerned. Madam Temporary Speaker, when we consider the amount of money that is currently being spent in our counties; Kshs190 billion in one account, another Kshs200 billion in another, a lot of that money has been spent in buying vehicles and tractors to pave roads by the county governments. Indeed, they are even buying vehicles for the County Executive Committee Members (CECs). All those assets are currently under threat. Without this amendment, all those assets, including the tractors are all under threat because all of them can be picked up tomorrow. We have people in this country called auctioneers. Unless something has changed, the last time I personally had to deal with an auctioneer, I saw a human being whose humanity was a big question mark in my mind because this is an individual without any morals or qualms. This is an individual who can take an ice cream out of your daughter’s mouth at the age of ten under the guise that they can even auction ice cream. When you think that these are the people that the county governments are now exposed to, you are left with no option but to move very quickly because it is within the realms of our imagination to see a situation where vehicles belonging to county governments are actually under a hammer somewhere in a bundu in Nyeri or Kasipul Kabondo. I hope that this is what this House will do; to move very quickly to pass this amendment into law. I would also urge that eventually when the Bill goes for assent to the President’s Office, that the President hastens to very quickly sign it into law, because without that, we will still be working--- But, in the meantime, it is important for the county governments to be on the lookout for this sort of thing. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also important for the judges and the Judiciary to be aware and to be alive to the fact that if they go and make the kind of rulings that they have continued to make, they are exposing county governments in a very severe way. It must be remembered that it was not done; the law was not amended to introduce the fact that vehicles can be auctioned or vehicles can be acquired by those who are owed money by the county governments. That is not what happened. It was left out; it is an oversight in law. Therefore, it is important to realise that, as a matter of fact, what we are doing is inserting into law something that already existed prior to the transition from the local governments to county governments. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, once again, I support the amendment to this Bill, and propose that the Senate should move very quickly into making similar amendments in similar Bills for us to execute our constitutional responsibility of protecting the county governments. With those few words, I beg to support."
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