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    "id": 907811,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/907811/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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        "id": 13195,
        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to comment on the Petition from West Pokot. The issue of deputy governors must be looked into deeply. It is our responsibility, as the Senate and legislature, to look into the County Governments Act and beef up the role of the deputy governor. There is a lacuna in law on what should happen in the absence of a deputy governor. We have counties that have not had deputy governors for almost a year. Nairobi City County is setting a bad precedent of transacting business with an incomplete Cabinet. We need to punish such counties by stopping their allocation until they put their governments in order. The law clearly states that the national Government and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) will allocate revenue and monies to counties. By definition, a county is made up of the legislature, the county assembly and the county executive through the executive committee. If the executive committee is not properly constituted, then that county does not qualify to be called a county. Therefore, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should be proposing measures in which we can discipline such counties as Nairobi City County, where the governor even walks in the precincts of this Parliament with impunity, trying to interpret the law otherwise. I think the Constitution had envisioned a situation whereby a governor will have a deputy governor."
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