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    "content": "When the Bill was read a first time, it was committed to the Committee on Finance and Budget. Hon. Members of Parliament (MPs) had some comments on the Bill. Among the issues they raised was that MPs be members of the County Industrial Development Committee (CIDC) in their respective counties. Initially, the Committee was against the Senators or any elected Members, taking part in anything which looked executive, and I agreed with them. It was not my intention that MPs do executive work, but I strongly believe we should have the County Development Boards (CDBs) in counties. Some forum like this should be encouraged in order to provide leadership. They must be involved in making decisions on which direction the county takes as far as industrialization is concerned. At the moment, I am aware that the CDB is in doldrums. My intention was to remove that committee and use the CDB because all I was looking for was a forum where some discussion happens on which direction we are taking as a county. While proposing this, at that moment, I had in mind that the county government would have a five year mandate. The governor and his government have a five year mandate, but the industrialization will go beyond the five years. It has to do with aspirations of people in that county on which direction they want to take. The Bill also proposes some way of getting views from the public. To that extent, I propose that there should be at least once every two years, some forums within the ward where people do say what kind of industrialization they want. Those views will be taken to the constituency and onwards to the county. The Committee had a lot of reservations about that. We never quite agreed because I had suggested that the elected people pick the views. I am not bothered who gets the views, all I am saying is that; let us get all the ideas the people have. My experience with wananchi is that sometimes they may not give you properly crystallized ideas. Some of the ideas got from the ordinary people can be very valuable. I would like to pursue with the Committee through my speech that let us maintain all people giving their views on this. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Committee also had an issue with private investors. In the first place, the Bill had only looked at how we could have public officers in the county government leaving out the private initiatives. However, through the comments from the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budgeting, I initiated the re-publishing of the Bill so that the private initiative could be accommodated in the Bill. Quite often, in Europe and other places, most industries do not belong to the government as such. The Government may have a share, but in most of the foreign industries which we have in this country, like Unilever and others,"
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