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    "id": 1553208,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "ballot paper, but they are not co-governor. The law envisages that there should be no vacuum in the office of the governor in case. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are having problems with deputy governors. You remember the Deputy Governor of Siaya was brought here. Fortunately, the House ensured he survived, but we are told he has not accessed his office up to date. When we declined to impeach him as a House of the Senate, the Deputy Governor of Siaya is yet to resume or assume his duties and functions of his office. He does not even access his salary. The intention of the drafters of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, is that there should be no vacuum. Existence of vacuum in such offices as the governor creates a lot of problems. Peace and instability becomes a problem in a county. Most governors in this country see their deputies as a threat to their seats. That is why they want deputy governors to operate in the three monkey’s principle where they hear nothing, see nothing and say nothing. I challenge the Chairperson of the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations to look even at the issue of Siaya. Even as we impeached former Deputy Governor of Kisii County, Hon. Robert Monda, in this House, another deputy was being appointed. Meru County have nominated a new deputy governor who is the Vice- Chairperson of the Independent Election and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Panel. So the deputy governors are having a challenge. In the last session, there was even a legislative proposal that deputy governors should be given jobs. I advise deputy governors to just be a deputy. If you want, just read a newspaper, come to the office, get the directions of the governor and go home because you are a principal assistant."
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