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    "id": 514916,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, part of the justification by the Senator for Mandera, the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, is persuasive. But I sought my Statement as a matter of urgency because the threat that county assemblies will ground to a halt is real. Today we have almost all the county assemblies’ speakers here and I can tell you that in addition to sitting in this House, they are, probably, trying to negotiate how to best see that their county assemblies continue to operate. The Chairperson has said that he wants, in a preliminary sense, a report to be given to them in a month’s time. The issue is that there is a ceiling that is being enforced, which is an illegality, because it was not a resolution of this House. So, what we are doing is to aid and abet an illegality. That is why my question came in; to try and address that illegality, so that county assemblies are not threatened by the potentiality of closure or grounding. So, a report is, probably, a better way of presenting this because it has recommendations. But in the interim, when the Chairperson walks out after his Motion for Adjournment, could he write a letter to inform the Controller of Budget and the Commission on Revenue Allocation that, that ceiling is illegal? They should start to effect what has been approved in the appropriation acts of the county assemblies, as legally binding documents until that time when one month lapses, then we can do certain evaluations. Otherwise, we will ground these county assemblies to a halt."
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