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    "id": 633549,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sijeny",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judith Achieng Sijeny",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. As the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Delegated Legislation, I know we have done a tremendous job conducting our oversight role on the counties. As a Committee, we have tried and invited many of our counterparts in the counties. We have only a quarter of the committees on delegated legislation from counties left. During our first interaction, we discovered that not many of our colleagues understood, first and foremost, their mandate within the committees and statutory instruments. We also had the dilemma and, therefore, we cannot say that they are not empowered. We had to interact with our predecessors of the 10th Parliament and our colleagues from the National Assembly. Hon. Amina who served in the previous Parliament is one of the brainchildren behind the Committee on Delegated Legislation. Having interacted with our peers, we understand our mandate as the Committee on Delegated Legislation. We have given the information and empowered our colleagues at the county level. To our surprise, they have caught up very fast. We have some counties like Bungoma County which are very much ahead of others and everything is in order. They have also interacted with others within the regions and have been encouraged. They meet within the regions and compare notes. The most important thing is to ensure legislation especially statutory instruments are harmonized within the entire country. Madam Temporary Speaker, it has also necessitated the need to empower the County Executive Committee (CEC) members who deal with drafting of statutory legislations because some of them were not clear on what to do. As we all know, statutory instruments should not be done while you are hiding behind the process because you do not want to do the lengthy process of enacting a law. So, our colleagues at the counties are now alert. When a Bill comes up, they know which relevant CEC member is supposed to prepare the necessary statutory instruments and, more particularly, regulations, policies and guidelines that will help to make the mother Act operational. This was not clear before. We found that some of our colleagues were given the role of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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