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    "content": "headquarters of the county government from the physical location specified in the Third Schedule to such other physical location as it may consider appropriate”. Section 6(3) states:- “A county assembly shall before passing a resolution under Subsection 2; facilitate public participation in the entire county”. Lastly:- “The county governor shall confer the status of an urban area to the seat of the physical location of the county government in accordance with the provisions set out in the Urban Areas and Cities Act, No.13 of 2011 after all the procedures have been done”. In this context, I share the concerns given by the seconder of this Bill, Sen. M. Kajwang who asked whether there was a resolution that came from the County Assembly to Parliament which means the Senate, so that the representative for the people of Kirinyaga who is Sen. Karaba would now drive this amendment. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the absence of that resolution, we cannot proceed with this Bill until we have a written resolution that has come to the Speaker and then be backed up by this. If we do it without that, it means that even myself, the Senator for West Pokot who has discovered that Kapenguria Urban area has been messed up by the current County Executive, would quickly run mad, and change the location to the empty Pokot land. Kapenguria is a very small, nice area but the governor decided to plant houses for every County Executive Member (CEC). For every CEC, there is a headquarters. So there are ten headquarters, instead of building one. The little space we had which is three acres is finished. I can easily run mad and say that we should change the location to an empty land in Pokot but there is a procedure for that. So, I will oppose this Bill until we are convinced, through your Office, that we have the resolution from the County Assembly, citing this. I know Sen. Karaba has given us eloquent presentation and mentioned that Kshs440 million was spent to build. We visited that place when we were looking at the siting locations recently. That was done by an Ad hoc Committee that was chaired by Senator Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki of Nyandarua. We found that the governor, in his own wisdom, decided to buy land and put up his massive building very fast. Sen. Karaba being a father sympathises with the whole issue and the building is ready. When we were there, there were still some scrambles because the County Assembly and the County Headquarters were very far apart. We are not saying that we want to deprive the people of Kutus the proximity to the governor and other services. Maybe, the population of Kutus is higher than that of Kerugoya and so on and so forth but that is not the way to do it. Just because this issue is in the Third Schedule of the Constitution, it does not mean that we just change like that and ignore the procedure that has been cited there. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need the Mover of this Bill to certify and convince the Senate, through your Office, that, indeed, that procedure was followed. If it was not followed, then we will shoot it down and the Mover will have to go and start afresh because it is allowed. You can change it but you have to follow that procedure. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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