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    "content": "of functions by various county governments laid on the table of the Senate today, 18th October, 2016. In the last one year, various functions have been requested and transferred to the counties. The last time all the 47 counties requested for the transfer of functions, they were granted those functions and they were gazetted. However, there were nine counties that had appealed on the transfer of these functions and it necessitated that Senate looks at the Bill and consider the merits and the demerits of the requests that were made by the various counties. These counties included Embu, Murang’a, Kiambu, Lamu Marsabit, Migori, Nyamira, Tharaka-Nithi and Siaya counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, after consideration, Kiambu County withdrew the appeal and the rest of the eight appeals were considered by Senate. We took time and arranged a stakeholders’ meeting including the governors of the counties who had made the appeal. They came forward and appealed for the functions they had required to be transferred. These included functions in agriculture, county roads, environment, rural electrification and library services. Those were the main ones that were requested by the various counties. The Sessional Committee on Devolved Government considered all these appeals and made recommendations which I have just tabled. I am going to ask the Senate to consider and adopt the recommendations that were made in the Report to enable these functions to be transferred to the counties and be formally gazetted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the request for transfer is in conformity with the Constitution where when counties feel it is necessary, appropriate and of better service to the public, they can appeal to have some functions to be transferred to the counties from the national Government. The considerations that we have made in the appeals meet that criteria in that the counties that have made these requests have shown the capacity to make deliveries on these functions."
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