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    "id": 594899,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this Bill; the Office of the County Attorney Bill, 2014, brought to this House by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. This Bill is extremely important as, indeed, my dear friend, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., has been saying. It will not only serve to reduce the temptation by county governments and assemblies to outsource legal work to private practitioners who bleed counties of substantial resources, it will also domesticate legal work within the county executive and county assemblies, to such an extent that there will be a depository of legal practice in counties that will provide continuity in dealing with cases within counties and between counties and other institutions. We know quite often that the speakers of county assemblies as well as county governors, need legal advice specific to issues arising in the county. When they pay for such services from private legal practitioners, there is a delay in time because these legal practitioners do not know the internal workings of the counties which are not necessarily legal, but quite often are loaded with political overtones. An inside counsel or lawyer to the workings of the county government and assembly will be in a better position to understand the political goings on and undertones which supersede legal resolutions. Therefore, the Senate is taking an extremely important step to ensure that the current gridlock in counties in dealing with legal problems is overcome, by developing an internal capacity for legal work within counties. This Bill, therefore, is very important in terms of capacity building in counties. If we had had this institution in counties, the slow motion in establishing proper structures and institutions in counties would not have occurred. Previously in the House today, I pointed out that there are extremely very few counties which have fully established the requisite structure within counties."
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