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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Finally, Article 96(4) (4) states that the Senate participates in the oversight of State officers by considering and determining any resolution to remove the President or Deputy President from office in accordance with Article 145. Kazi inaishia hapo. Indeed, those things belong there. Like I said, there are avenues and we have proposed this severally. Given that we adopted it, and we must live with it until it ceases to have 47 county assemblies and county governments, the best thing is to try and learn from available examples in the world. I know some Members of this House have year in, year out, as well as Members of the other House, attended those conferences which are held every August. The model of the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) in the USA is such that all Members of all state legislatures from the 50 states congregate among themselves alongside congressmen and senators at the national level to try and learn from one another best practices. It will be very useful if our county assemblies were encouraged to try and understand the operations of the NCSL. Otherwise, under our current Constitution, the county assemblies are modelled on the functioning of the National Assembly because they enact legislation within their jurisdictions. They also oversee and represent. I want to agree with Hon. John Mbadi. If there is not much to learn from the father, the child could easily become rogue. Of course, it is also an accepted fact that from time to time, even at the national level, legislatures experience turbulence. In this country, if it was not for the 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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