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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abdirahman",
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        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my flow of thought has very much been interrupted by the numerous points of order, including my own. I was almost getting convinced that at one point we really need to accommodate views from other stakeholders. I joined in because I felt that we needed to create a law or somehow make amendments that will not affect or is in the public interest. However, we will proceed as you suggested. Probably, at a certain point in time, we will correct any anomalies that might have emerged along the way. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I said, I stand to support this Bill, as introduced. It touches heavily on the county governments or devolution in general. It is important that, as the very primary stakeholder – the Senate – we interrogate at every stage and see to it that whatever gaps that may have arisen in the existing Acts, can actually be accommodated in the ones that are introduced. Many times we said that we had not been consulted. It is an opportunity for us now, since the National Assembly is seeking our concurrence and being the “Upper House,” as the final authority to append our feelings on it. These amendments that are proposed are numerous. The first one is on the Land Adjudication Act, particularly of great interest to people from the Arid and Semi-Arid areas, what was commonly referred to as the trust land and now called “community land.” This is really something that empowers our people. We have seen huge tracts of land that have been taken by individuals and this has kept on giving us problems. This is an area of great interest which we really need to support. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the next one is the Urban Areas and Cities Act which empowers a county governor to confer the status of a special municipality to a headquarter of a county. In the past, the manner in which municipalities were actually given names by the local authorities was not very clear. I remember in one instance they 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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