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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is why I have brought so many questions on how we infuse life into Nairobi City County through the NMS for this period of time. So, this is extremely important. I remember the public participation that was held. I told them that they need to do public participation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you know what politicians do. We have one thing in common between us and electricity. We look for the path of least resistance, but with the greatest impact. So it had to be done. Now we have time to objectively look at this area and pass legislation. This is going to be a land mark legislation. I congratulate Sen. M. Kajwang‟, Sen. Olekina the Committee and the conceiver. The person who participated in the conception and has not denied the paternity of this initiative, who is yourself. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are questions that we will still need to answer. For instance, this deed of transfer in Nairobi lapses in March. I have not seen a provision for what happens in terms of extension. The camel gets into the tent with just the head, but then it enters the whole body. I do not even know if we transferred the well-wishes. I saw the Director-General wishing happy Diwali on behalf of the county government and NMS today. I do not know whether we transferred that function of wishing people a happy Diwali. He said that is was on behalf of NMS and the Nairobi City County Government. He cannot speak on behalf of the county government. He is an entity that is holding fort, a baby sitter. When you have a baby sitter taking care of your baby, they cannot claim that, that is their baby when you come back. They hand the baby back and say, “Daddy is home. Go back to your daddy.” The “daddy” is the people of Nairobi City County. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know that there are a lot of discussions going on right now. The acting governor is being arm twisted before being sworn in to extend the transfer into the next term past August. That is unconstitutional. There is the fear of who comes in. There is the assumption that county governments have devils and the national Government has angels. Corruption can creep in at the national level. Even in the NMS, we have seen areas where cartel behaviour has begun. The Swahili say, mgema akisifiwa, tembo hulitia maji. That is why I will still persist on accountability. I intend to be good governor if the people of Nairobi give me the trust to run this county. When they are sworn in after August 9th 2022, a good governor would be pragmatic enough to say that certain aspects of NMS have been working. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, instead of reinventing the will, I will maintain certain aspects of it and incorporate them as part of the county government. Sen Olekina and his relatives in the USA say that if it is not broken, do not fix it. We must maintain what is working, but the responsibility is ultimately with the governor. That governor is held to account by the county assembly and the Senate. That interest will be safeguarded. Nairobi can work. We must make Nairobi work. If the health department is working, why go look for new people? In the same way, we have Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company. That is discussion for another day. We can still have NMS as a department of the county government dealing with certain aspects. I believe in devolution. Devolution is based on the principal of subsidiarity. The principal of subsidiarity is that a service is best offered at the lowest level compatible to benefit area of that service."
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