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    "content": "when I went through that Bill this morning, a copy of which I have, that several clauses in the Bill refer to Acts concerning counties that are intended to be amended. With your permission, allow me to cite just a few. There is an intention to amend the Urban Areas and Cities Act, the Transition to Devolved Government Act, the County Governments Act, the Agriculture and Fisheries Food Authority Act and, finally but not least, there is also an intention to amend the Crops Act and the Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Act. As you have heard from the few examples that I have given, they are all clearly concerning the counties. If these Bills are concerning counties, I would like you not to get tired, but to come out clearly to us and tell us candidly whether, indeed, there has been any consultations between you and the Speaker of the National Assembly in the meaning of Article 110 Sub-section 3 of the Constitution of Kenya. You will tell us whether we should hold our horses if, indeed, this Bill is coming before us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if such consultations have not been done and if this Bill is not intended to come before us, it will go further in confirming what is rapidly becoming the reputation of the National Assembly. The National Assembly is now starting to look like it was created to cannibalize other constitutional institutions. You remember when this matter first came to this House, a section of the media and a section of the public thought and reduced it to a simple case of a supremacy battle between the National Assembly and the Senate. Because of this carelessness, you can see there is a serious crisis. The President has been embarrassed and the National Assembly has pronounced itself. The President has respected the decision of the National Assembly because he cannot disobey Parliament and he has rendered the country into a constitutional crisis. It is important that you, with the sober mind that you have had so far and being the voice of reason, you come out and tell us what is going on. We do not want to lose our country just because of the cannibalism of the National Assembly of Kenya."
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