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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment”. The Fourth Schedule also sets out the quorum for conduct of business which shall be at least three members of the commission and the chairperson shall preside. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, part 6 also states that- “Unless a unanimous decision is reached, a decision on any matter before the commission shall be by majority vote” It is a well thought out commission. They have provided the procedure in the Bill on the Second Schedule of how to petition Parliament. That – “A petition to Parliament shall — (a) be handwritten, printed or typed; (b) be in English or Swahili and be written in respectful, decorous and temperate language; (c) be free of alteration and interlineation in its text; (d) it shall be addressed to the Senate; and so on and so forth.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very important exercise. We need to complete this issue, so that we can conclude this. The 47 counties are listed there attaching where they commence. Members, you can read all the particulars enlisted. Section 36 of the First Schedule is on Bomet County and 35 is on Kericho County together with the geographical location and the degrees and so on and so forth. I want to urge Members to support this Bill. This is because it shall help in resolving one of the challenges that our devolved units continue to face. I believe after which we can embark on even more difficult issues such as what was raised by Sen. M. Kajwang’. I raised this, he may not have been in the House at that particular time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this particular session, during my first speech to the House, I stated that, as a House, we must address ourselves to the rising cost of running county governments where counties are almost getting over and above 50 per cent on just salaries alone. I have seen counties that are as high as 47 per cent, on salaries of all the devolved funds. If your governor is spending upwards of such numbers, you need to stop referring to them as governors. We need to call them paymaster generals because ideally that is what they are. They are not running a county government. They are simply Human Resource (HR) payroll masters. This is a conversation that we need to have. The defence of many county governments when they appear before Sen. M. Kajwang’ and with regard to the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), they say; what do you want us to do? We have health workers and they demand for it. They are justified to a greater extent, but they do not disclose how many members of staff are being paid outside of the IPPRS. It is a significant number. Many governors are setting what you would consider as small gangs in the name of young people, kazi kwa vijana and all these things, yet they are not carried out through a competitive process. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services, Senate."
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