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"speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
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"content": "The last issue that I wanted to comment on is that the Bill does not make it clear the relationship between the county governments and the provincial administration. We thought that the drafters would be brave enough to deal with this issue. I know the argument is that since the Governor would be the chair of the security committee at the county, the provincial administration will be answering to the county government. That may be so but the provincial administration is still answering to Nairobi. The District Commissioner (DC) or the County Commissioners (CC) are still answering to Nairobi and their resources are still coming from Nairobi. So, we may end up creating conflict at the county level. So, we might see security rising because of such conflict. So, the House, either through this Bill or through another Bill which we must bring to deal with the provincial administration, must be bold and clear. If the provincial administration is going to exist then it must conform to the structure of the Government as proposed. The Constitution is very clear. It says that the provincial administration must be restructured to respect and accord with the structure of the county government. So, if we let the provincial administration exist as a parallel system, then we create another parallel system with the county governments. So you can see where we are creating conflict. Clearly, there would be conflict. So, we cannot just wait until five years are over. In five years, we shall have created a county government structure. If the county administrator finds a DC there, who would be doing whose work? The county administrator will say he is doing his job and the other one is also giving orders. So, whose orders are going to be obeyed? We are creating conflicts. This matter must be resolved. Prof. Saitoti must bring a Bill to deal with the provincial administration now so that both are synchronized so that we can have functional county governments when we go for elections."
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