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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ngugi",
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        "legal_name": "David Mwaniki Ngugi",
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    "content": "On the issue of the term of the governors, one year is nothing for somebody to be a chair of the Governors Council. We will propose that he will be eligible for a further one-year-term only so that if he is proved to be a good chairman of the Governor’s Council, he can have a chance of going for two years. If he has not been able to impress his fellow governors, then they can elect somebody else. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that will cure the issue of somebody being there for so many years or not performing well. The issue of reports to the National Assembly and the Senate has been raised. The recommendations would come thereafter. This can only be advisory. It cannot be binding on the counties because you will be interfering with work of the counties. The reports can be made to the Senate and the National Assembly from the Summit or the Council of Governors. However, whatever recommendation that will be made can only be advisory. There is the emotive issue of the provincial administration. I have said before that in other devolved countries there is no provincial administration. It is not there in Brazil, South Africa, Germany, France and even the United Kingdom which imposed it on us. This is a colonial relic. For us to think that we cannot exist without provincial administration is like the hen whose leg was tied as it was being taken to the market. Once it reached the market and it was let free, it could not take off because it felt that it was still tied. We can do without provincial administration. However, as I have said before, no Kenyan should lose his or her job on account of changing or reforming the provincial administration. The provincial administrators like the DCs, DOs and Chiefs should become development co-ordinators in their units. They should be under the Governor. They are part of the civil service staff that the Governor has. They cannot be part of another Government and yet they are not really professional staff under the Governor. I know that the Minister, at some point may have to address this and say that provincial administrators can play a different role as development or peace co-ordinators depending on the county. The issue of loading over people cannot continue."
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