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    "id": 905484,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. What we are doing at the moment is an indicator that we were fairly slow in moving to devolution because some of these things ought to have been done at the very initial stages. In fact, from the outset, that is what we ought to have done. The Constitution is very clear that the national Government was supposed to facilitate the processes of setting up county governments. So, in my view, if you look at it logically, I would have thought that the Attorney-General needed to have been given resources to help in setting up the Office of the Attorney General at the counties. The National Assembly ought to have allocated resources at that particular time to help county assemblies start up. That is exactly how I would have gone with this thing to an extent that this Bill that we are discussing needed to have been brought at that particular stage. However, I believe that this is critical and it ought to have been done much earlier. The main thing that I wanted to bring out, which some of my colleagues have not brought out is the role of the Attorney-General in the legislative processes. The Attorney-General midwifes legislation between the Executive and Parliament. This is something that really needs to be there and ought to have been there in the very first stage because county assemblies are coming up with all manner of legislations, whether good or bad. For the last five years, they have been coming up with legislations. If you look at the Constitution critically, you will find that the role of the county assembly is to domesticate national legislations. In my view, the first three years of the establishment of county assemblies, they ought to have concentrated on domesticating the over 700 legislations that we have in this country. That would have been done very well if they had an attorney general. That was missing."
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