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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, at one time, we used to have one national radio station which people listened to throughout the country. There was no other radio. Later on, a few other radio stations were licensed. We now have radio stations in the villages, wards and counties which inform the people. This is the same way we should devolve the printing of county matters in an official document which is vital in informing the people. The procedures of the County Printer Bill had been debated and passed by the former Senate. The Bill had been passed on to the National Assembly. It is the same thing with the Office of the County Attorney Bill. It had been debated, passed and transmitted to the National Assembly. However, we are now going through the motion again of doing this simply because the National Assembly did not have time to debate it. It is high time the rules were changed. Although we know that everything dies with the dissolution of Parliament, maybe, we can decide that where a matter has been finalized by one House and gone to the other, it is for that other House to start the process rather than re-debating, redoing public participation, giving necessary notices and so on. It takes time. For example, instead of us debating this Bill now, it ought to have been debated in the National Assembly and enacted. It is not for us to redo the whole thing. Having said that, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this important Bill and urge my fellow Members to support it."
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