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    "content": "of creating more boards, causing more confusion, waiting for the Minister to pass policy, rules and regulations yet every county has a special policy. We have allowed counties to pass their county integrated development plans. Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki has been complaining about a Bill which we have not debated which, in all intends and purposes, is an attempt to ensure that counties can actually set up fertiliser industries for themselves. The things that Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki has proposed of creating a board at county level managed by leaders would be reversed by clauses in this Bill. For those reasons and the functions that have been mentioned here, which I would not elaborate on because those are the things we are talking about, devolution under the Constitution is not devolution of corruption, mismanagement of boards and bureaucracies which are synonymous with barons who make money at the expense of farmers. The reason we get poorer is because every time we sit or attend forums, we say that this is an agricultural economy. What agricultural work are we doing when we are reversing gains made by this Constitution in an attempt to ensure that farmers make money out of their sweat and the work that they have been doing? I dare say that these proposed amendments are, for that reason alone; unconstitutional to the extent that we are trying to have what we refer in common terms a claw back. You give a right and claw it back using another law. This is the real intention. The Mover of this Bill may not have been aware but there is a reason why this Senate is here. This is where these things are supposed to be taken through a toothcomb. Since we have done so, we will say, without any fear at all that this Bill is completely anti the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and should be rejected and not amended. It should be rejected in total. The only other thing that the Mover has done is to amend areas where the word “director” appears to replace it with the term “board”. However, the sole purpose of this Bill was to create a Board. I oppose."
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