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    "content": "Another quick proposal I have for the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government is with regard to Clause 8. He has talked about the ad hoc committee there which includes the Institute of Surveyors of Kenya and the Institute of Planners and Architects, all the way down to the business community. However, he has left out the clergy. I think the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government should include the clergy because they form an important part of our society. Indeed, many social programmes that the governor will run will include some input from the clergy. So, I propose, quickly, that he looks at that. I like the whole idea that the Minister has brought on the issue of managers for various urban areas and cities. I would like the governor to be the person to appoint those people through a competitive process, as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government has put it. What I do not see though, is the actual process. Perhaps, I have not looked at it properly but I have not seen the actual process. This, I feel, leaves a whole section of proper management to political manipulation. If I contest governorship, it will mean that in certain areas, you will be giving back political favours. The other thing I see missing here is the qualifications of those managers. They are not set out at all. In fact, there is no attempt to say that a manager must have a degree or any kind of qualification. There is nothing to say that a town manager must have a diploma or that kind of thing. It is very non-progressive for us to create structures and then fail to man them with the correct material. What might happen is that there will be a void. Power does not accept a vacuum. So, politicians will fill those spaces. You will remember that we have many councillors who will not be elected. In terms of politics, they will be useful in terms of the campaigns for the MPs, governors and there will be political horse-trading. If we do not put qualifications for the city managers, the urban areas managers and all the other areas, we will have a situation where nothing will change. Things will be the same. We will have the same people this time wearing different gowns. We will have the same councillors heading the same offices they used to head under different names. The quality of services that we, as a Parliament, intended for our people will not be delivered. We will then end up with the same situation where we will have a governor who appoints people who are his friends. He cannot tell them anything because he needs a second term. We will have people who will not care about the services that people should have. In between now and the time we will have the Committee Stage, I urge the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government to get his team to put in some qualifications and some clauses that will help us have an efficient system of service delivery to people. With those three points, I beg to support."
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