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    "id": 505241,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 366,
        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I want to raise an issue where I would like the guidance of the Speaker on how we should proceed with this Bill. I do not want to blame anybody because I think there was confusion between the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments Bill) of the Senate and this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. This particular Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill No.2) (National Assembly Bill No.33 of 2013) has not been interrogated in the way it ought to be interrogated by the Senate. This Bill is good. I commend the National Assembly for referring this Bill to us. I can see that the systems are now working where they do recognise that this Bill touches mainly on the various Bills which touch on the county. That is a fact. Therefore, therefore, it was a Bill that should have more or less emanated from here, but I do not want to take that as an issue. The Bill is now before us. The question is how to proceed now because the fact of the matter is that when you read the Bill, it is necessary that the various Committees which touch on the various provisions of the Bill examine them very carefully. This is a very important Bill which is touching on the county. As a general comment, for example, when the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights considered some of the legislation that had been passed by the Tenth Parliament and which did not take into account the fact that some of the functions had been devolved, we carried out very few amendments just to make them compliant with the Constitution. However, it may be recalled by the House that when I was moving that Bill, I said that the various Committees should now examine these various Bills and come up with substantive amendments to those Bills. The Crops Act touches on issues which touch on county governments. We should not just consider these Bills which will be there and through mutatis mutandis principle, we wait until the county governments come up with their own Bills. In fact, I would be very hesitant to wait for the various county governments to come up with various Bills on all these things. If the national Government is giving the national policy which is now being legislated, and if that legislation is for the counties, then the input of the county governments should be in this particular Bill which will now inform the county assemblies when they are now doing their own enactments. For example, if you take the Kenya Livestock Act, they now constitute the institute, but they have not taken into account---"
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