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    "id": 789491,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to move that The County Governments (Amendment) (No.2) Bill (Senate Bills No.7 of 2017) be now read a Second Time. The amendment that I have proposed on this Bill is pretty straight forward. However, it is important that I give the background of it. We had a very unfortunate incident in the last Session, where the Makueni County Government invoked the provisions of Article 92 for the suspension of that County Government. After the Petition was approved by the President, it was sent to the Senate for purposes of setting up the Commission that was to investigate the incident in Makueni County. However, even after the collection of all the signatures, the process and the public funds were spent, the Report of the Commission was sent to the President who exercised discretion to disagree with it. Madam Temporary Speaker, I had read a copy of the Report and other than the question of the suspension of Makueni County Government, there were several issues about Bills; the relationship between the county governments, what we would call Intra- Government Dispute Resolution Mechanism; and the question of budgets. Madam Temporary Speaker, despite all these good recommendations made by my senior, Mr. Mohamed Nyaoga, and his Commission, that Report never found its way into the Senate. I rose on a point of order and requested that the Executive do submit the Report. I asked the then Speaker, Hon. Ekwee Ethuro, to issue directions on the tabling of that Report. Despite the directions given by the then Speaker of the Senate, that Report never found its way to the Senate, possibly because there was no method of enforcing the direction of the Speaker to compel the President to submit the Report to us to consider what would have been very good recommendations on how to deal with disputes like these, where the county assemblies and county governors have refused to agree. 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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