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    "content": "officer in fact came to our Committee and suggested that we allow them to devolve their functions but we told them that the way they are operating is in reverse of what we anticipated in terms of devolution. Although they think that the six printers that they have purchased can be distributed to counties, we reminded them that we have 47 counties and they, therefore, need to buy 47 printers so that they are able to devolve this function. We know that it was a kneejerk reaction as a result of this Bill that has been proposed by Sen. Sang. We are of the view, in both Committees of Legal Affairs and Human Rights and that on Information and Technology, that we have very little option in terms of how this would be done. Sen. Sang’s Bill has proposed, and we are in agreement at both Committees that the person who would be regulating the management of this printer is also specified so that you do not have an extension of a war between a governor and a speaker or a clerk of a county assembly and a county executive in terms of publications. The documents that require to be published are important although Article 199 talks about legislation, sub- clause 2 talks about other publications. The documents that are required to be published here have been defined and extended extensively so that many other publications like executive orders, official proclamations by the governor or the speaker, rules that may be gazetted and rules that may arise out of legislation in counties. All those publications would find their way into this County Printer Bill. I am convinced a 100 per cent that this Bill will ensure that we capacitate counties in terms of Article 189. We would, first, allow them to hire the officers that are contemplated here. We would create employment when we devolve this function because we have said from our preliminary analysis that the office of the Government Printer in Nairobi does not have the capacity that is contemplated under Article 199 (1) and (2) because they are also unable to comply with the publications that they are required to do nationally. I would be happy to have this Bill extend to what I have talked about; that we can call it The Nyeri County Printer Bill. The person in Nyeri should not come to Nairobi to publish the loss of a title whatsoever or a person in Mombasa should come to Nairobi to publish a deed poll or that a person administering an estate both in the Kadhi courts and any other courts should wait like I have cases for six months for a gazette notice a single one page to be published. In supporting this Bill, the mischief that we have pointed out should be an impetus to all the Senators here to support it. Just like the Bill that we passed yesterday on the petition to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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