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    "id": 813469,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/813469/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I stand to support this Bill. Statistics is an indispensable component of planning. This Bill is directly connected to the Fourth Schedule, Part 2 of the Constitution where the functions of the county government are clearly given in different facets like agriculture, pre-primary education, animal control, trade development, county planning and development. All these areas need statistics. That is why we need to have that kind of data. For a long time, this has been centralised within the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The reason was that anybody who is looking for certain data, could easily access it. Sometimes, it is not easy to get this data. When you are doing a research, you need to have permission to go to the CBS who may give the data you need or not. At the CBS, it is collated on a national perspective. In other words, it does not centre on data that can be helpful at the county level. This Bill clearly pre supposes all segments of data that will be necessary within a county like bio data and population data put in various variables like age. We can look at the agricultural component of a county and know what is to be done to improve it. All this needs to be put together in a constructive way. The Bill sets various organs to do this comprehensively starting with the national consultative committee on statistics that is well established and headed by a governor who will be nominated by the Council of Governors (CoG), to be the chairperson. 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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