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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, whereas my neighbour has given me information, the information was erroneous and jumbled up. He has agreed that you grow from a village, shopping centre then it becomes a town in a municipality and then a city. Let us not define a centre in my village, for example, call Embobut a city so that out of a “feel good” desire, it becomes Embobut City. When you go there, you can count the number of shops. Let us have criteria which allow our counties to grow from one step to another to reach that level. There is what we call the city of the county and a municipality. The city of a county will remain the same even if there is one shopping centre. However, this one does not get the status of a municipality. This is a global issue. There is a Sister Cities Associations and Municipalities Association in the world. We must remain within the global definitions. When the Urban Areas and Cities Act was being drafted, that is what we had in mind. I want to add my contribution to what Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. ably talked about with regard to the Transition to Devolved Governments Act. If no one is desirous of reversing the process that Senators have already completed, there will be no function to be transferred. There is no transitional process of a function. The transition time is still going on. It will end next year but there is no function that someone will apply for so that we consider. That is why I am saying that whoever drafted this law was either ignorant, was in a hurry or was just doing it for the sake of it. In fact, if you want to talk about transfer of functions, that is under Article 187 of the Constitution. This is about functions being transferred to the other level of Government which is already provided for in the Intergovernmental Relations Act. The Transition to Devolved Governments Act is a timed Act. It has a time frame and certain minimum obligations for its existence. The reason why it has been implemented in a major way is because we have transferred the functions. What is remaining is the auditing of assets, liabilities and so forth. However, this does not involve provisions which are superfluous being inserted here. If you refer to the notes attached to these Bills, you will realize that there was a proposal at some point to delete the transition period from three years. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know that it is within your powers to add me more time. If you could add me another five minutes I will appreciate. In this regard, we are talking about the transition period. Someone said that we should extend the transition period and the term of the Transition Authority. That is a serious issue. If anyone wanted to do that, then we would have a discussion. There is one problem in this country as we speak. The technical committee that should serve the summit is not in place. We do not know the reason why it is not in place. Our Committee has been inquiring why we have not received any reports from the Summit or from the Council of Governors. They have been having several meetings and they have not reported to this House. Be that as it may, we must not extend the term of 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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