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    "id": 575772,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1154,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that The County Governments (Amendment) (No.2) (Senate Bill No.2 of 2014) be now read a Second Time. In the first instance, this Bill originates from the Senate and it concerns counties. As you know, all matters that concern counties must either go to the Senate or originate from the Senate. If it originates from the National Assembly, it must end up in the Senate. The Senate can equally originate a Bill that concerns counties or is not a money Bill. This is not a money Bill in accordance with Article 114 of the Constitution. It concerns counties. The principal objective of this Bill is to ensure that county assemblies respect the gender rule as espoused under Articles 27(8) and 177 of the Constitution. The Bill seeks to amend the County Governments Act and introduce a new Sub-Section 7(a), which seeks to state:- “A county assembly shall not be fully and duly constituted for the first sitting after a general election unless all the members provided for under Article 177(1)(b) and (c) of the Constitution have been duly nominated and their names published in the gazette.” Secondly, Sub-Clause 2 seeks to introduce that Sub-clause 1 shall not apply where the nomination of a member of a county assembly under Article 177(1)(b) and (c) of the Constitution is the subject of a court order stopping or otherwise, pending the nomination of the member. Finally, the Bill also seeks to introduce Sub-Clause 3 that states:- “Despite Sub-clause 1, a county assembly shall be deemed to be fully and duly constituted for the first sitting, notwithstanding the death or before the date of the first sitting of the county assembly, of a member nominated under Article 177(1)(b) and (c) of the Constitution”. The import of this Bill is to ensure that all the nominated Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) as contained in Article 177 will not be locked out of the first sitting as it happened in the first sitting of all the county assemblies in 2013 after the general election. The MCAs were nominated and gazetted after the first sitting of all the county assemblies. During the first sitting of the county assemblies, they elected the chairpersons of the various committees but all the nominated MCAs were not present. So, all the committees of the county assemblies, as they are constituted at the moment, do not contain any woman at all except those who were elected."
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