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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to support the deletion of this clause for two reasons. We made a decision to have counties answerable in managing public land and that will be possible if you have the county land boards committees in place. I want to disagree with the Chairman who has said that the fact that the county assemblies approve the membership of the board gives them power to control them. That is not true. The law mandates the NLC to liaise with the county governments in appointing the boards. The responsibility of the county assemblies is the same as that of the National Assembly in vetting appointments. The assembly vets the membership of those boards to ensure that they are people of integrity and competent enough to execute their duties. It is the same way we vet the NLC membership. We should respect the fact that county assemblies have almost similar responsibilities as the National Assembly. As Hon. (Ms.) Mishi has said, the Supreme Court upheld that the county land management boards have a responsibility and must be in place. It would be wrong for us to do away with a body that we created to devolve functions to the county."
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