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    "id": 978477,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/978477/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "I was asking whether, having transferred a large majority of functions of the Nairobi City County Government, we need a governor for the county. Do we require a County Executive Committee (CEC)? Significantly, what is the fate of the CEC Members and the staff responsible for the functions that have sought to be transferred? Do we need a county assembly, considering now that the oversight function or most of the issues that they are supposed to oversight have been transferred? What role remains for the county assembly to perform? These are important questions that require to be addressed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the fifth issue that I wish to raise relates to revenue collection. The Deed under Article 5.5 provides for the purpose of general coordination of revenue collection. The Nairobi City County Government appoints the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) as the principal agent for overall revenue collection. Article 187 of the Constitution, Part 3 of the Intergovernmental Relations Act contemplates that the matters contained in the Deed relate to the transfer of functions between levels of Government. It is not clear why the matter of revenue collection has been provided for in the Deed, more so because this is not a function that is sought to be transferred. This is an arrangement that the Nairobi City County Government should put in place, outside the ambit of the deed of transfer of functions. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the sixth and final issue relates to dispute resolution, which is provided for under Article 11 of the Deed. Article 11.2, in particular, provides that where a dispute arising cannot be resolved amicably through negotiations, the party shall refer the dispute to the National and County Government Coordinating Summit. It is doubtful that the Summit would be an appropriate forum for resolution of such a dispute, as parties to the dispute are already members of the Summit. There would be a need to have a dispute resolution framework that ensures that any emerging disputes are conclusively addressed. As I conclude, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to make the final observations. There is an emerging pattern where county governors are arrested, charged in court for various offenses and barred from office."
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