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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Temporary Speaker",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Hon. Senators, the issues which have been raised by all of you starting with Sen. Wako are very weighty. As the Chair and also a person acquainted with these issues, I have read through the two legislations. I am persuaded that some of the issues being discussed here are so weighty that it would not be fair if we do not have the benefit of the relevant Committees and public participation. For example, I have just seen that we are dealing with reduction of what an urban area, a city and a town is and that has profound implications on management by the counties. If you reduce the number of cities or create more than two cities in a county, it has operational costs under the Urban Areas and Cities Act. There are various issues in the Transition to Devolved Government Act and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has been very persuasive on whether you can amend an Act on an action that has already been completed because we are no longer transferring functions. We completed that responsibility. If you look at provisions of the County Government Act, the additional provision, it is directly substituting another section that was passed in this House which subsequently is being challenged in court. That is the section related to County Development Boards (CDBS). You will find that, that is important. However, I must say this very clearly, it must come to the notice of the House. That is where it comes backs to you the Chairman of Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee that this legislation, the First Reading was done on 6th August 2014. We have had about three months waiting for action from the Committee. It was the Legal Affairs The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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