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    "content": "contemplated that we would have alternative publications other than the Kenya Gazette in Article 199 of the Constitution, which reads as follows:- “(1). County legislation does not take effect until published in the Gazette. (2) National and county legislation may prescribe additional requirements in respect of the publication of county legislation.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as a result of this Bill, the Committee on Information and Technology – which I am the Vice Chairman – has interrogated this matter extensively. We have done the public participation and received views of all concerned stakeholders. We have a crisis at the Kenya Gazette which is as a result of a backlog of almost six months of publication of, either documents, legislations or various issues causing this unknown quagmire. A person who wants to change their name – whether from Kerugoya, Makueni or Ikolomani – must go to the Kenya Gazette to have their deed poll gazetted. When a person loses a title deed – whether they are in Karatina, Marsabit, Shimoni or Vanga – they must take their documents to the Kenya Gazette. Similarly, all counties which want their documents published must also converge at this small office somewhere near Harambee Avenue; the office of the Kenya Gazette. These people are so overwhelmed. I am surprised the printer has not crashed. We have now learnt, in fact, through interrogation of this matter in detail that we do not have legislation on how the Kenya Gazette operates. Nobody knows as it never appears in the budgets, the officer is not known nor is there any legislation and, therefore, you are in a quagmire of monumental proportions in terms of publications coming from the 47 counties. Every small document must queue to be published. In the case of Makueni, the budget that was contentious had to wait in the queue and by the time it was published, the question was: Did it come into law 14 days after it was passed or did it come into law six months after it was published in the Kenya Gazette ? All these small little things are the ones that are causing the problems we are having in the counties. Therefore, the wisdom of the drafters of our Constitution in Article 199 has not been put into effect. The drafters of the County Governments Act were steps ahead of us because they contemplated the County Gazette Bill that we are now discussing. They had even suggested that county legislation would come into force upon publication in the"
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