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"content": "On the issue of a Governor, we said that a Governor is like a mini-president and he cannot be the one who runs the county, hires his own Cabinet and yet he cannot fire it for whatever reason. The Governor should be able to have unfettered power to hire his Cabinet, which is the County Executive. The only proviso, like it is in the National Assembly, is that when he hires the executive committee or the cabinet at that level, they have to be vetted and approved by the County Assembly. However, when it comes to firing them, the Governor should have unfettered power to fire them, but not to fire them according to Article 40(1), which requires the Governor to fire them on certain conditionalities. That is not so for the President in the case of the National Assembly. For example, if a Minister was appointed by the President of the National Assembly and after some time, he was disloyal, disloyalty is enough ground for that Minister to be dismissed, but you cannot say that the President has to fire them because of incompetence or other malpractices. Those grounds need to be clearly spelt out so that you do not have any legal tussle when we go to County Governments."
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