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    "id": 872335,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Joyce Emanikor",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Akai Emanikor",
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    "content": "suspension. It gives a threshold so that the President does not just use his whims to reject or accept. There is a procedure. This Bill enables the Senate to terminate suspension. It details the procedures. There are many things that happen in the counties and there is a lot of confusion. There are high levels of corruption and in-capabilities both in the county assemblies and in the performance of the CECs and chief officers. There is poor performance, insubordination, wars between CECs, MCAs and even up to the Senate level. This Bill seeks to clarify all this. This Bill will also popularise the possibilities of suspending a county government and circumstances that may lead to the same where it will enable the common mwananchi to be knowledgeable enough to raise queries, petitions and issues that will necessitate suspension of a county government. We know the nearest we came to suspension of a county government was the Makueni case which never took place. When the Leader of the Majority Party spoke, he alluded to the fact that the war in Turkana and Pokot really makes the two county governments risk being suspended. We know it has to be a serious issue. We know that the national Government, being in charge of security, has to intervene. There is a lot going on now in Kainuk in Turkana County and there is no way the Turkana people will rise against themselves in their own county. It is an issue of incursion, invasion and aggressors from neighbouring counties. These are some of the issues that should come out in such a Bill, so that we know the steps to be taken when a county aggressively attacks another county. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. With those few remarks, I support the Bill."
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