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    "content": "the counties. I am not talking about the Finance Bills or the Budget. Do we know how many Bills have passed? Who does the quality control on the Bills? Other than this Bill, the County Statutory Instrument Bill (Senate Bill No.10 of 2015), we have the Office of the County Attorney Bill (Senate Bill No.37 of 2014) that is coming up for Third Reading. Is there a way that we can ensure that those two Bills and the one that was proposed by Sen. Sang, but is still pending in the bureaucracy of Parliament called the County Printers Bill which has been quoted here extensively get assented to? Sen. Sang in ensuring that his Bill is not lost in the woodwork has included it here although it has not been passed. It has been mentioned here in conformity with Article 191 where we have said that county legislation will come into force when it is published in the Kenya Gazette or any other method under Article 191(2). Therefore, this is the way to go Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I must express my disappointment that while Sen. Sang, in his usual self and his Committee, has put industry to this Bill, together with Sen. Sijeny whom he sits with in that Committee. Is it time that we take Bills concerning counties straight to His Excellency the President for assent then face the legal challenges after that? This is because the reverse applies. The Constituency Development Fund (CDF) law did not come to the Senate, but it is now an Act of Parliament that was passed in record speed yet nobody is complaining. As we approach the next General Elections, which will take place in the next 17 months, going by the record of what we have done, and the Bills that are pending and the time that we have taken, if we do not move faster and take drastic action, this will be Bill No.19 and if it is to follow chronological order in terms of time, then it will not be signed into law during the tenure of this Government. It will have to wait for somebody else to sign it. Sen. Sang has proposed several Bills which put together would anchor Article 185(1)(2) and (3) and our work under Article 96 in perfect, all falls with the Constitution; so that we will remind the next Members of County Assembly (MCAs) who will be elected using these Bills and Acts, that their work is legislation, to make county governments effective, not to procure wheelbarrows like the ones for Kakamega; carcinogenic wheelbarrows that cost so much money. An attempt to engage in development is not their work. We can only do that---"
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