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"content": ". It stresses and anticipates a County Gazette . Therefore, we cannot call what we print in Nairobi –Nairobi being a county on its own anyway - to be a County Gazette . I would prefer that it is a County Gazette of that particular county. This particular provision was anticipating that we would have some County Gazette and County Printer that does the printing for the county. The Act also says that upon assent, there should be publication within seven days. I am not sure that all the counties have met this deadline of seven days. If all of them are sending all their publications to the Government Printer, are we sure that we can beat this particular provision and have every other Bill that is assented to published within seven days? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you and I have been practicing law for a long time. Several times we would send succession cases for gazettement; just to gazette that so and so is the administrator of the estate or has moved to administer the estate. It takes months for that to happen. I have had that experience with the Government Printer. I am in doubt that we can have the Government Printer do everything for all the 47 counties. We have many other things to be published and printed; it is not just bills from the counties. We have succession cases and every other thing that is coming up for printing. This is a good Bill that will relieve the Government Printer of the heavy work they have. It will then improve on efficiency in terms of delivery to the people. It also ensures tracking, control and close supervision. I remember at one time in this country people debating about a small clause that was sneaked in. I do not remember what it was, but something was sneaked into a publication and it was a big issue and debate. You can imagine having to send a document to Nairobi and then take some days to come and follow up. You cannot even be sure of the quality of the publication. Given the corruption that we have in this country, you will need to be closer and supervise what you do. This will ensure tracking, proper control, supervision and management of the quality of the product that we end up having. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, look at the authorized people to send in publications, as per this Bill. The governor and office of the Speaker of the county could have something to be published. County Executive Committee Members in their mandates have something to be published. The Chairperson or Secretary of an independent board, a commission, committee or bodies established in law by the county may also have something to be published. You can imagine all these people channeling what they want to be published and printed. If you have all these people sending and you want to control and have a quality document at the end of the day very fast, it cannot happen if it is not close to you. This County Printer will receive all these applications and print. It also brings centralization of printing. I would not imagine a situation where the County printer is there and the Speaker has his own unit of directives being sent and the governor sends his. If this Bill is passed there will be a centralized way of doing printing as a county. It is not like everybody sending their own. Right now, everybody is sending their prints and there is no centralized way of sending them. I am happy that this Bill seeks to centralize some of these operations. It will be better for purposes of service. 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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