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    "id": 781742,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/781742/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Losiakou",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "This is also one of them in terms of forming the Authority that will be bringing both county governments and the national Government together. So, there is nothing out of order. However, the question would be: How did they arrive at this? If you go back to our Report – and I ask my colleague to also go back to that Report – in Annexure II, you will find that the development of this Authority, and particularly of this Bill, was done so procedurally and it started by having an MoU. That MoU, as he has rightfully read, was done among all the governors that form the Nairobi metropolis. That was done properly. It was sanctioned properly and it moved on to create a gazette notice because the governors and the national Government, having the power under Article 189 (2) of the Constitution, came up and formed that agreement and signed it. However, that was not enough. They came up with a committee. Gazette Notice No. 1093 of February 2015 established the committee by the counties. That is addressing the issue of public participation and in terms of getting the public and even county governments to make contributions whether they agree or not to this matter. It is the counties themselves. They came up with that committee and went around in all the counties. When they were going around all the counties, that was public participation in making sure how the formation of…"
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