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    "content": "simply asking that the community of bull fighting should not make use of the stadium. I remember during those early days when the Governor was misguided, he attempted such a thing and the people - not me - told him: “No! We cannot pay for Bukhungu Stadium because before you came, you found us here doing bull fighting.” So, he was misguided to lock the place and then we allowed the bulls to know that that was where the event was and the bulls entered. The poor askaris could do nothing to the bulls because the bulls could have hurt them. So, these are the realities of making use of these facilities. Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to comment very quickly on Clause 8, which is providing for the need for notification of regulation impact statements. They go on - I hope that the Mover will capture these concerns of mine – to say that such a notification should be either in the Kenya or county gazette or a newspaper of wide circulation within the county. That is okay. However, with all due respect to West Pokot County, for example, which I know very well because its leader was given an opportunity to fly over the county as we saw, the reality on the ground is that when you talk about a newspaper of wide circulation, you are just speaking to yourself. So, you need to be imaginative and ask yourself how this notification can best reach the people of West Pokot County. I would, therefore, like to invite the Committee Chairperson to make an amendment in Clause 8 and include “notices at public institutions”. For example, on the letterhead of the county government of West Pokot, you then write that notification and pin it on the door of the office of the chief, church or staff room of the nearest primary school, then that information will have received wide circulation. Anything else is just pretending that we all come from Liverpool in London when most of us come from Kakamega in Kenya. We must apply appropriate technology. I am further encouraged by this Bill. Therefore, this brings me to Clause 13 which provides as follows on the issue of exemption that they have brought in:- “The Committee may exempt certain statutory instruments or class of statutory instruments from scrutiny, if the Committee, upon consulting an relevant regulation making authority, is satisfied that the scrutiny is not reasonably practical due to the number of regulations in that class.” No! We must oppose. This is where stakeholders end up being shortchanged. Who told some people who speak English that when things are translated into local languages, local people cannot understand? However long it is, all the stakeholders must be given an opportunity for the matter to be translated slowly into vernacular, explained and then when it is understood, the stakeholders will speak to it. That is what public participation is all about. I, therefore, want the Mover of this Bill to respond to this and convince us why any regulation should at any stage be exempted from scrutiny. It is a must. As an example, let me go back to the issue of participation on taxation. I had an opportunity to lead the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget in Kiambu County. We had a very hot altercation with the County Executive because they had denied mama mboga, whose stock of ripe bananas is usually Kshs500, an opportunity to explain herself. She wanted to be given an opportunity to explain to the County Executive that; “for me to sell The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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