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    "id": 810788,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I wish to support this Bill. The Members have spoken a lot to the architectural, structural and transitional issues and I will not speak to that. I support it because it provides social security for employees of county governments especially upon retirement. Members have spoken at length and I will just speak to some issues which I think need amendments. As we think about the structural issues, we need to get our mind frame off county councils to county governments. We are not talking about councils because we now have governments. The constitutional framework talks about a county government, which is actually a mirror of the national Government. In this country, we created 48 governments, with one being sort of a super government. However, in reality, we have 48 governments because of the history of marginalisation and inequality in this country. Therefore, devolution is supposed to help. Whatever structure we come up with must mirror the national Government. Some of my amendments will be speaking to this. I think Prof. Oduol mentioned that we need to look at some of the definitions because they need to sychronise with existing Acts. Like the definition of spouse in the Bill needs to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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