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    "id": 701369,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is one of our serious responsibilities as Senators. I want to thank the Chair for leading this House in ensuring we expeditiously deal with the transfers that came from various counties. There were various appeals related to clarification on matters related to environment like forests. Some of those appeals came in just before we passed the Forests Act. In this Report, we have observed that those concerns have been taken care of under the law. This is also a recognition – and I want to thank the counties that made the appeal – of the awareness they have on matters related to their functions as county governments. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you notice in these appeals, various counties like Elgeyo Marakwet County wanted to be part and parcel of the county that shares the resource of Chebororwo Agricultural Training Centre with the other counties. It has been captured there that all the counties including West Pokot, Trans Nzoia and Turkana are going to be beneficiaries of that institution. If you look at Embu County, for example, most of the counties were dealing with matters related to grain storage and we said agriculture is an exclusive mandate of the counties and that National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) should not hinder any county that is willing and ready to spend resources to build a storage facility. For example, if a county like Tana River had stored grain and they had strategic grain reserves within the county, the county government would have bought the grains and distributed to their residents at this time of drought. That applies to Kiambu County that appealed on the same issue. On the rural electrification, there was an interesting appeal on matters of it that came from Kiambu County. You can notice that this is a concurrent matter and we have encouraged the counties to have a joint implementation framework that is related to distribution and reticulation of energy as provided for in the Fourth Schedule (1) and (2) of the Constitution as a concurrent function that is affecting both levels of government. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have also noted that on matters of library services, these were already transferred to county governments. The issue that is bothering them is implementation. Unfortunately, many counties want to feel the part of saying a function has been transferred to them. If you go to many places, one of the functions that counties have neglected is the function of library services. 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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