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"content": "In my county, my governor has even employed people in every village and pays them a salary to ring radio stations everyday to say that he is a good man. Look at those abuses, how will people like those reform to the next governor? What is their job description? I have been listening to what people are saying. Some, out there, are very fine administrators. Not everyone is rotten. Some very fine administrators have been calling and saying: “Senate Minority Leader, we are administrators who were competitively appointed, why do you want to send us home yet we do not owe allegiance to the governor, but to the people of our county?” There are many like that. There are also those rotten ones whose duty is to praise the governor. There is one in my county whose only duty is, every time the governor is going to a funeral, he arrives two hours early to sit on a special chair that costs Kshs3million, and waits for the governor in case anyone else sits on it. That is his job. When you have such abuses, you start wondering whether this system should not be looked at. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to tell my brother that this is a fantastic Bill, take a little time and see how to repackage, recast, reshape, reform it and make it to serve the future. I like the idea of standardization in terms of qualifications. Today, you cannot be recruited as an assistant county commissioner unless you are a graduate. I do not, therefore, understand how ward administrators are picked from anywhere and everywhere. The sponsor of the Bill whispered to me that he wants to have ward administrators with a diploma. My thinking is that the sub-county administrators and the ward administrators must be graduates with relevant skills to administrate. You remember we had a very good Bill here about bringing a board to look at what we are doing in the counties. It was killed by governors running to court. If we want to have a team that will eventually be depoliticized, I would have loved a situation where some even go through revetting to see if they fit the bill. Those whose duty is to call radio stations and praise the governor, calling him baba ya kaunti from morning to evening, do not deserve to be in those offices. Those who are doing a good job should be left to do a good job. I do not know how Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, the distinguished Senator for West Pokot, can find this Bill to give meaning and effect to Section 17 of the transitional clauses of the Constitution. In trying to make the administrators work, how do they relate, co-exist or replace the piles and piles of provincial administrators? Today, with a ward administrator, what is the role of the District Officer (DO)? Today, with a sub-county administrator, what is the role of the District Commissioner (DC)? Today, with the governor, what is the role of the county commissioner? Today, there is a man sitting in Garissa, Nakuru or Kakamega calling himself a regional coordinator. What does he do because each county is semi-autonomous? There is no county in the former Nyanza Province that reports to Kisumu. Homa Bay is a county on its own. So, what does the man called the regional coordinator or regional commissioner sitting in Kisumu do? This is probably what my brother, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, should have had the courage to deal with. Let them reject it and we will deal with them at elections. We should get hold of the bull by the horns like Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and ride it The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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