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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. In conclusion of what I was saying yesterday, if you look at Article 43 of the Constitution on Economic and Social Rights, which are set out there, relates to standard of health and health care services, accessibility and adequacy of housing and reasonable standards of sanitation. There is also the issue of food and quality of food, water, social security and education. I am referring to this particular article because looking at the Bill under Clause 6(2), you will notice that the distinguished Senator from Mombasa has given some responsibilities and functions to county governments. Under this clause, both the national and county governments shall take measures to create opportunities and environment in which the economic and social rights can be realized. You will notice that some of these rights as spelt out in Article 43 are matters within the purview of county governments. These matters include health, sanitation and, to some extent, housing, hunger for food, safe water and social security. The matter which is properly within the domain of the national Government in its entirety other than pre-primary education is education. To me, Clause 6(2) is quite in order because it ensures that there is a mechanism other than the parliamentary process and oversight that is done by other stakeholders and county assemblies, that there will be a process under which it will be possible to hold to account, particularly county governments, in so far as the provisions of these rights are concerned. It is sometimes very difficult, with the money that is going to the counties, to quantify how much is being done because they are done in a haphazard way. To measure it whether it is improving the lives of people on these four broad areas would not be easy or efficacious."
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