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    "content": "consider any other recommendations of the Commission not related to whether or not the county government should be suspended and make a determination. This is what is going to cure the problem of Makueni County. It is yet another ingenious way of making this a little clearer. Under Clause 129, the Senate now has a process of who sits in the Committee. In this one, you have determination of suspension. In the Constitution, Clause 4, there is a suspension of the suspension and the termination of the suspension. Section 129 of the County Governments Act is not very clear on how this process is to be done and who is going to do it. Therefore, the clauses that we have provided here are just to provide clarity, and we have quoted Article 192(4) of the Constitution and how it will be moved. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the current law, assuming we were to terminate the suspension of Makueni County; there is no process in the Standing Orders and the County Governments Act as to who moves the Senate. This is not clear. Therefore, Clause 2 is the proposal to include a process, which is that any Member can move a Motion for termination. It will be given by notice under Clauses 3 and 4. There will be a report in the case where the suspension is given under Clause 5. In considering the said termination under Subsection 3, of course the Senate shall invite the Interim County Management Board which is appointed immediately after the suspension is approved. This Board is done by the President and composed of various persons, both at county and at National level. A motion under Subsection 3 shall be moved by tabling the report of the Committee, which I have already alluded to, and the voting, which is in Clause 7. A motion to terminate must be approved by a majority of the county delegations. As per Article 123 of the Constitution on decisions of the Senate, we do not want this matter of either terminating or suspending a county or terminating the suspension of a county to be treated any lighter than any other decision we make here under the Constitution. Once the suspension is terminated under Clause 4 of the same Section, the Interim County Management Board shall stand dissolved. The governor, deputy governor, members of the executive and the speaker shall resume their functions. The law is such that once the suspension is done, everybody goes home, gets a half salary to await their fate, which is in the hands of the President and the Senate only, assuming that the Senate agrees to terminate the suspension under Article 192(4) and (5). Madam Temporary Speaker, the amendments here are straightforward and simple to provide a much neater method. I am praying that the 46 counties, other than Makueni, do not go through the process that we had to go through as the County Government of Makueni. This is because the stigma of the suspension of Makueni County Government – where the citizens appeared as if they were quarrelling with the people they elected – was extremely untidy. We were in the news for the wrong reasons and for a long time. We are now in the news for good reasons and we are going to be there for a long time. So I do not wish this on anybody else or any other county. Madam Temporary Speaker, it would be dereliction of duty for us to imagine that nobody is going to invoke this law and we do not know what is going to happen. I have already seen quarrels between county governments, members of the county government, county assemblies; you will never know. Therefore, this clarity will help counties so that 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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