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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Injury benefits Act and so forth. The rest of the amendments are just to ensure that they are in line with the Act. As I said, this is very boring because we are jumping from one Act to another; it is confusing sometimes. We are now moving to the Urban Areas and Cities Act where the amendments are meant to establish the Directorate of Urban Development Management. The CS shall establish directorate of urban development management within the Ministry. The functions shall be - (a) formulating review of urban development policy. (b) co-ordinate urban development at national level. (c) convene forums of national urbanization dialogue, (d) organize liaison of Urbanization Estate Act as urban sector work groups. (e) develop and regulate the new criteria for the classification of governance and management of urban areas cities. (f) promoting innovative governance and open and inclusive urban areas and cities. (g) establish and maintain national urbanization observatory (h) providing support and technical backstop on urbanisation to the counties. (i) disseminating research, knowledge and urbanization in the counties. (j) monitoring national urbanization trends and performance. (k) advising national and county governments, monitoring urban disaster preparedness and urban safety. (l) seeking national priority on vision of urban development. (m) building capacity in urban governance. (n) undertaking minimum intervention projects in urban cities and performing such functions as the CS may direct. Although I never mentioned much about it but we must be very careful about overlapping mandate of the counties particularly when you read “co-ordinating urban development at National level.” There is nothing called urban development at National level. All urban areas and cities are functions of the county government. We must be careful when dealing with those issues. However, practically speaking, many counties feel like it does not matter if the National Government has extra money after Division of Revenue Bill which is actually the principle. If they want to delve into implementation of a policy in a function that is devolved and there is the money, why not? It depends on the agreement they have with county governments. Why refuse money that is more? That is why we must deal with the Division of Revenue processes properly so that once the counties get what they ought to get, if the National Government feel they will increase other areas like foreign policy, national defense and take that money to salvage disaster in a function that is devolved; we must be careful when we are criticizing National Government for spending money in a devolved function. That money would never have gone to counties anyway because the Division of Revenue has been done. If the National Government came and said, “We want to build the Kapsowar tower”, why would I as a Governor try to say, “No, no this is my function” ? It is over and above, I already have the resources; I can channel them to something else like agriculture. That is all about the Urban Areas and Cities Act. We have the Micro and Small Enterprise Act of 2012. Most of the amendments here were just to move associations to enterprises, capture functions of the Authority to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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