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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally and very quickly, if you look at the real reason some of us are afraid of, this Transitional Authority, it is that this Authority is going to have so much power. If you look at Clause 23, it will have the power to identify which functions will be transferable to the county governments. These people, after they have decided in their own wisdom which functions they are going to transfer to the Tana River County Government, for example, will then require the governor to make an application in a prescribed form. Then they have been given discretion because when it is quiet, it means they can refuse. These people will be wielding so much power and we are afraid, particularly for those of us who have been marginalized from colonial time up to now, that there could be a tendency of continued marginalization. We want strong provisions there that will not have people seated in that Transitional Authority become kings over the governors that we will be elected in our counties. We want these functions transferred and we do not want people sitting in Nairobi here to determine the fate of how these functions will be coming. We want a closer look at that particular clause, so that we do not have people here marginalizing us the way it has been continuing for the last 40 years since Independence. In that connection, we should have a clause that those in those six persons, there are people who are non-governmental, who should be appointed from counties that are considered marginalized. These should be persons who should come from such areas as northern Kenya and northern Coast, because they will be sensitive to the needs of the people down there. We do not want people who have lived in Nairobi with nice degrees, I do not know from which universities coming here and telling us that because we have not fulfilled this and that, they think we should stay until the third year for them to transfer the functions to us. Let us appoint people who have been in this business. They have suffered and have known what is happening. Let us avoid this thing of regional balance and, therefore, you bring in two Nairobi people, two people from counties which have done so well and then you leave only one person from North Eastern and one person from the Tana River County. The whole thing then becomes imbalanced again. I pray that we will put in something here and the Minister will look into how we can curve it such that people from marginalized counties, even without the county profiling, can have a bigger say in terms of how the transfer of these assets shall take place and how the composition of this Authority will be. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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