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    "content": "the national Government share information. Despite the specific allocation of functions to the national and county governments at Part IV of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution, consultation and cooperation between the two levels of government on all matters to do with statistics is also required. The Bill has taken care of that. When I go into the details of the Bill later, we will see how they will be cooperating and sharing information. It is necessary and required under Article 6 (2) of the Constitution which provides that the governments at the national and county levels conduct their mutual relations on the basis of consultation and cooperation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is also the issue of Clause 13 of the Bill. When I go into its details later, we are going to look at how the issue of consultation and cooperation will be taking place at the county and national levels. If I go to the content of the Bill, I hope you can enrich this Bill as we go into the debate and the Committee of the Whole on how best we can empower this office so that it serves the purpose that is intended. As I had earlier said, the County Statistics Office will be responsible for collecting, compiling, analyzing, extracting and disseminating statistical information on the matter set out in Part 2 of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution so that we are specific that it is on the functions that have been devolved. That is what this office will be looking at. The other issue is maintaining a comprehensive and reliable social economic database. We need to be scientific to know how our counties are doing since we devolved our funds and the devolved functions when we passed the Constitution. We had been saying that the counties that had been marginalized for a long time – with the assumption and it could be true – because all resources and systems were based at the Central Government. We want to see how the social aspects of the people in our counties have changed. How have our counties’ economies changed? It is only through this database that we will know. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other one is ensuring coordination of the operations of official bodies in the county in the compilation and dissemination of statistics and related information with particular regard to the avoidance and duplication in the collection of statistical information so that you do not go to the Ministry of Health in the county and they give you their own information. They tell you maternal health has improved in our county since we devolved health. You go to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, they will tell you that they have improved. I do not think any Ministry in the counties or the national Government would want to give you the negative statistics from their various Ministries. That is why it is important that they work in consultation with this office. This Bill anticipates them to execute their mandate without interference from the county executive, to give the correct information on what is happening in the counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other one is the attainment of compatibility and the integration of statistics compiled by official bodies. This office will collect information that has been compiled by other official bodies to a central place. It is important that we get all official communication from this office. 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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