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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. One thing that is unfortunate is that our county assemblies have operated for the last four years without this kind of guidance. It is really unfortunate. A point has now come up that part of the reasons why some of our things have not happened very well is because of how we managed the transition largely from the old order to the new order, where we now have county governments and the national Government. The way we have handled the transition is not good. While many things were happening elsewhere, a lot did not happen with the county assemblies. What the county assemblies did, partly with some secondment from this national Parliament, was just picking staff, procedures and materials from the national Parliament to the county assemblies. So, this is coming at a time that I want to believe some effort must be put in place to see to it that county assemblies see themselves in an environment that is different from what councillors used to have. They have a mandate that is big and similar to what we have at the national level. County assemblies are a miniature of our national Parliament in terms of what they practise, their procedures and how records and reporting are done. While this is supposed to be so, county assemblies have had challenges largely because of lack of capacity and clear effort to have them in that kind of an arrangement. So, we have miniature parliaments which are supposed to be a replica of what we do, but they are minus very many things including what is now coming up at this point in time. This Bill is going to enhance participation of members in the county assemblies by building enough confidence and trust. Many Members have been operating in a situation they are not very clear. They are not too sure. I want to believe that this Bill is now going to create a situation where there is some confidence in place. Anytime one acts out of good amounts of confidence, they normally add value in terms of what they do. The other thing that I want to bring out is that the provisions in this Bill are very close and it appears that they guided the Committee on Privileges when they were handling the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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