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    "id": 891036,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/891036/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Adan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13418,
        "legal_name": "Adan Hajj Ali",
        "slug": "adan-haji-ali"
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    "content": "As far as Clause 6(i) is concerned, the Committee rejected the Senate amendments to it. The justification is that part of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution provides that the National Government has a function relating to agriculture whereas irrigation is the mandate of the national Government. Irrigation is not a devolved function and it is included in Part II of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. In Clause 8, the Committee agreed with the Senate amendments the reason being the additional power of the National Irrigation Authority to promote crops, animals and fish products. They added the words “safe storage of crops, animal and fish products grown or produced on national and other irrigation schemes.” This further enriches the Bill. Here they added the words “safe storage”. In the National Assembly Bill, we only had the “Irrigation Authority to promote crops, animals and fish products”. Then they added “to promote safe storage of crops, animal and fish products”. This just enhances the Bill and we had no issue with that. In Clause 9, the Bill provides that the Bill be amended in 9(a)(i) by deleting the words “State Department of” appearing immediately after the words “the Principal Secretary” in paragraph (b) and substituting therefor the words “responsible for”. Here the justification is that State departments change every so often with Executive Orders. The Committee agreed with the Senate amendments in paragraph (a) and rejected the Senate amendments to paragraph (a)(ii), (iii), (b), (c) and (d). The reason why we disagreed with the Senate amendments is to unduly expand the composition of the Board of the National Authority. This goes against the Mwongozo guidelines where they wanted the CoG to nominate four members to the board. So, the Committee felt that, that was far too many. The expanded board is against the Mwongozo guidelines and so, we rejected it. The provisions enable the members of the board to elect a vice- chairperson from among themselves and to have gender parity in leadership as well. These are some of the few areas where we had rejected and others where we saw sanity and good practice in drafting. We agreed with the Senate on those that are going to make fundamental differences and for those that were seeking to rope in the CoG, we rejected them outright."
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