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    "id": 593242,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can summarize what the Members have said into this one sentence: There is absence of legal framework and we need the law. As the Statement indicated, there are ongoing consultations. Sen. Haji has attended one of the consultation meetings. I hope that the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations can work together with our Committee on Devolved Government and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights to expedite the process so that we have a legal framework. While reading the Constitution, I did not see an Article that says the Nairobi City County has the constitutional authority to continue maintaining the askaris . It is good for them to be maintained for the purpose of the service they are doing and because we are used to them. However, in the absence of the Fourth Schedule, Part 2, providing for the permission of county governments to have askaris, I think that the legal framework is missing so that we have to fall back to Article 249 which permits the creation of an enforcement agency. Therefore, we have to fall back to Article 249 which permits creation of an enforcement entity. That is why we really need a legal framework. Even if we were to give advice as a House, that the recruitment of these officers be stopped everywhere immediately, there would be chaos because it would be impossible, for example, for the Nairobi County government to collect revenue and enforce certain things. Therefore, a middle ground must be achieved. Counties that already had askaris before the Constitution came to place can continue with the system. For example, in Uasin Gishu County, it was only in Eldoret Town. However – with the advent of all this – every county wants to take it to every place in the village. Bomet County, for example, never had any askaris for whatever reasons because they did not have a town of serious magnitude to warrant that kind of thing. Kericho County had it in Kericho Town alone. I do not think Elgeyo-Marakwet had and I do not think they have that at the moment. Therefore, the legal framework is very important. 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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