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    "id": 826729,
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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, Hon. Wamalwa wants me to learn the many sub-tribes of the Luhya community. Following the Friday Big Lunch, we are heading towards uniting Kenyans outside sub-tribes and tribes. I know Hon. Omulele is a second termer; a serious Member of the Speaker’s Panel. I never said “Omulembe”. I said “Omulele”. But I will take some time and learn the many sub-tribes. It will be of great benefit to where I come from, going forward – the 2022 equation. So, I am under obligation to learn all the sub-tribes; not only in Western but even in Ukambani, Mt. Kenya and the North. Hon. Chris has disoriented me. I had the Floor. We were at Clause 6. Clause 6 of the Bill seeks to achieve three things. One, it provides for the election of the speaker. Two, it establishes the office of the deputy speaker for each county assembly. Three, it makes provision in a situation where the speaker and the deputy speaker are not present. Clause 7 of the Bill seeks to provide comprehensively the instances and procedures for the removal of a speaker and a deputy speaker of a county assembly. The current Section 11 of the Act has left a lot of issues unaddressed or a lacuna in law with regard to vacation of office of speaker or deputy speaker. For instance, it does not provide when the offices shall become vacant. The Act does not say the grounds for removal of a speaker or deputy speaker. And it does not talk of the procedure for moving a Motion for a resolution to remove the speaker or the deputy speaker. All these are missing in the current parent Act, the County Governments Act (No. 17 of 2012). This clause fills that gap. Clause 8 of the Bill seeks to amend Section 27 on the recall of a member of a county assembly (MCA). It proposes to delete subsection (2) and substitute it with a new provision which provides the grounds for recalling an MCA, the process and how precise it should be. Clauses 8 and 9 of the Bill in totality seek to remedy the unconstitutionality of Sections 27 and 28 of the Act. This provision provides that a recall can only be initiated upon judgement by a High Court and that a person who contested cannot initiate a recall and that the recall be signed by persons who were voters in the election in respect of which the recall is sought. So, the whole process of recalling an MCA is that if you contested against that candidate, then you cannot initiate a recall. Clauses 10 and 13 of the Bill propose to amend Sections 31 and 40 of the Act in order to alter the powers of a governor to appoint and dismiss a county executive committee member. The powers of a governor in appointing and dismissing CEC Member is provided for in Clauses 10 and 13. 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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