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    "id": 860173,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I am looking at the Bill and I think it is important we get the essence. These warehouses will be in the counties. Our Constitution is very clear about devolution of functions. Agriculture and trade are devolved functions and are regulated at the county level. This Bill in Clause 5 intended to anchor the devolved functions so that the CEC defined in this Bill as the CEC member responsible for matters relating to agriculture in the respective county will interact with these warehouses which are being operated within their system. If we delete this clause, it means there will be a warehouse in Nyandarua, which the Constitution says should be regulated and managed under the Nyandarua County Government system by the CEC in Nyandarua, but there is no enabling law for him to even inspect that warehouse. It is important that we do not delete just because it is the county. There was a rationale for this provision. At the very least, let us leave it at this point and at the point of mediation, which will obviously come, we can look at the matter. However, deleting it is actually denying county governments the power that they have been given by the Constitution to perform their function. Remember the Constitution also states very clearly that Parliament shall provide legislation to enable county governments to perform their functions. So, we cannot then tell them that we are doing a law and then cutting them off from carrying out the functions which they have been given by the Constitution. I beg to ask the Chair to reconsider this deletion. It is harmless to have it remain. We can either review it or recommit it, but let us not delete it and then start figuring out how to reinsert it because we have killed a very critical function of the county governments."
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