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    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": " Here I am. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am in the House. I rise to support the Petition to County Assemblies (Procedure) Bill, 2018. It is a Bill that is emanating from the Senate to this House for the sole purpose of ensuring that county assemblies have a procedure of introducing petitions on the Floor of the House and those petitions are referred to the relevant committees to be acted upon. I have gone through the Bill. The procedure that the county assemblies are adopting is the one we use in this House to ensure that petitions - whether by the public or by private members - find their way into the House. They are presented in the manner that we have prescribed in our Standing Orders. The Chair then refers those petitions to the various committees to be dealt with. County assemblies have been groping in darkness with regard to how they can present petitions to their assemblies. They have also been groping in darkness with regard to the form and format of petitions. That is the reason why this Bill has been introduced in this House and a form in the format of a Schedule has been provided in the Bill on how they can present their petitions. I urge the House to pass this Bill so that it becomes law and the county assemblies are able to use it. I want to see the County Assembly of Tharaka Nithi introducing and prosecuting numerous petitions regarding the various issues that touch on the citizens of Tharaka Nithi County and especially my constituency of Tharaka. There are a lot of issues including water, food, roads and electricity which, if the Assembly petitions the County Government, they can be dealt with. With those remarks, I urge the House to pass this Bill so that the county assemblies have a Bill of their own procedure with regard to the presentation of petitions to the assemblies."
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