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    "content": "THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Select Committee of the Senate on Constitutional and Legal Review laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 23rd September, 2015. I stand here today on behalf of my colleagues, the Members of this Select Committee, to move a Motion which is very critical to this House at a very critical moment in our Republic. When we passed the new Constitution five years ago, it came with a lot of expectations with an improved human rights environment and better space for the public to engage with elected leaders and Government. One of the most integral pillars of this Constitution was the new system of devolved governance. I have said again that many people think that when we talk about devolved governance and devolution, we are just talking about county governments. However, as the Constitution puts it very clear in Article 6, this system of governance relates to the two levels of Government; that is the national Government and county governments. The relationship between the two levels of Government must conduct themselves with a lot of mutual respect. Article 6(3) of the Constitution provides that as a result of devolution, even national entities will have the opportunity to carry out their functions closer to the people or to the very local level. If you look at the objectives of devolution in Article 174 of the Constitution, it is emphasized that there is a mechanism and institutional framework for carrying out functions to the local level. One of the most defining provisions of our Constitution that runs throughout the whole Constitution is devolved governance. With our experience in the last five years, and particularly in the last almost three years when we were elected to come to this House, there have been certain experiences that we have gone through as a House that led to the formation of this Select Committee. That experience was anchored in the sector of devolution and the manner in which the institutions of governance are working together, particularly the National Assembly and the Senate in supporting and fostering that institution of governance called devolved system of governance. Therefore, this House established a Committee comprised of; 1. Sen. Murkomen – Chairman 2. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. – Deputy Chairman 3. Sen. Murungi 4. Sen. Lesuuda 5. Sen (Eng.) Muriuki 6. Sen. Billow 7. Sen. Orengo 8. Sen Khalwale 9. Sen. Abdille Mr. Speaker Sir, it is instructive that I am moving this Motion on a day that people from Tangaza College are here to study the Sustainable and Collaborative Leadership for Development. We achieved the objective of this Committee because we worked as a team behind the scene. This was a suggestion from the senior counsel, Sen. Orengo who shared with us his personal experience of many years in the House, since the time I was born. He told us that it was useful for the Committee to work behind the 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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