{"id":826850,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826850/?format=json","text_counter":329,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Garissa Township, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Aden Duale","speaker":{"id":15,"legal_name":"Aden Bare Duale","slug":"aden-duale"},"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank all the Members who contributed this afternoon to the County Governments (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.11 of 2017). A number of issues were raised such as nominated MCAs being guns for hire. I do not want to qualify that statement. If we want to deal with nominated MCAs, majority of whom are women, we must pass the two-thirds gender Bill. There is no short-cut about it, Hon. Engineer. Because we could not pass the two-thirds gender Bill, we ended up with the top-up of young beautiful ladies who were nominated by political parties. Secondly, this Bill is important because it deals with the element of putting in law…"}