Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 513605,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/513605/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 255,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "accounts should also come to the Senate so that we can vet whether this NRBSA is complying with the law as it is supposed to be. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have spoken to Section 30. If it was an Act of Parliament today, Narok County would not be quarrelling because this is exactly the issue they are having. I am happy that in Section 29 we have complied with the Constitution by having public participation. I thank Sen. (Dr.) Zani because she has gone further in stating what “public participation” means even beyond what the County Governments Act provides for. This means that we have gone a step further although the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights in which Sen. Hassan and I proudly sit, is drafting the Public Participation Bill so that we will tie the loose ends where public participation is not well covered under the law. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I suggest that under Clause 1, the NRBSA that Sen. (Dr.) Zani has proposed must be insulated. This is because one of the things that will happen immediately this Bill becomes law is that this NRBSA will be fought left right and centre by everybody so that it does not work. Politics will start coming into play. I suggest that you insulate this NRBSA in the same way the Kenya Revenue Authority Act, the Teachers Service Commission or any other Authority that is a Government functionary is insulated. That way, if a person will sue this NRBSA, they must give a notice and they cannot attach them. This NRBSA will be carrying out such a mandate that if you do not insulate it legally, there is a possibility that politicians are going to interfere. In Clause 7, they have proposed that we have the Kenya Association of Manufactures (KAM). I propose that we have the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) because it is a much bigger body. The KAM is a member of the KEPSA which is a bigger umbrella of professional business bodies. The Senate Committee on Finance, Budget and Commerce met these people. We need to loop them into this so that we have the benefit of their expansive network all over, including microfinance sectors and other fields of business which is important."
}