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    "id": 826716,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Committee to apply to the College of Arms for grant of the coat of arms. How do they apply and get it? The amendment in Clause 3 seeks to provide for commencement of county assembly sittings. Section 136(1) of the County Governments Act provides for the first sitting of a county assembly after the first election under the new Constitution. The Act does not provide for what happens in the second election and subsequent ones under the new Constitution. So, the County Governments Act only talks about the first election. What happens in subsequent elections? Where will be the sittings of the county assemblies? The amendment in Clause 4 of the Bill seeks to cure an incorrect cross-reference to Section 27(3)(a) of the County Governments Act instead of Section 26(3)(a). It is about numbering. The amendment in Clause 5 seeks to amend Section 9(3) of the Act. You have the principal Act at the back of that Bill. When I refer to the principal Act or the current Act, it is the County Governments Act (No. 17 of 2012). It seeks that amendment so that members of a county assembly shall be sworn in on the first sitting of the county assembly, instead of after the announcement of the final results of an election. The swearing in takes place during the first sitting just like we have it in the National Assembly. So, county assemblies should, in many forms, be a replica of what goes on in the National Assembly. If you look at the amendment in Clause 5 of the Bill, it seeks to delete subsections (4) and (5) of Section 9 of the principal Act where it provides that any other member elected to act as speaker by the county assembly shall take up the role where the speaker is absent. This stems from Article 178(2)(b) of the Constitution. The amendment seeks to provide certainty upon the absence of the speaker. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the amendment on Clause 6 of the Bill seeks to achieve three things: one, it provides for the election of the speaker; secondly, it establishes the office of a deputy speaker for each county assembly; and thirdly, makes provision where both the speaker and the deputy speaker are absent. It happens in our case. That is why we have the Speaker’s Panel. Hon. Omulele and the gracious lady from Makueni, Hon. Jessica Mbalu, fit in that category. When the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker are away, there is cover."
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