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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruteere",
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        "legal_name": "Silas Muriuki Ruteere",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Bill because chiefs, assistant chiefs, DCs and County Commissioners have done a very commendable job in ensuring that there is security in the villages and in the locations. The District Security Committees (DSCs) are doing a very commendable job. If we do not have the Provincial Administration the coordination between the President and the common man at the grassroots level will not be there. The President is seeking votes from the ordinary citizen right at the grassroots and he needs to reach that ordinary Kenyan for his policies to be told to the people. That will be the job of the assistant chief. The chief does the work of counseling citizens and solving disputes related to marriages and boundaries. These are very key issues to wananchi. They are taken very lightly, but the jobs of chiefs and assistant chiefs--- They are not even remunerated according to the work that they do. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the link between the county governments and the national Government should be clearly put in place so that there is no conflict between the Provincial Administration and the county governments. This is because they are there to supplement each other for better services to reach wananchi. Therefore, the issue of saying that the Provincial Administration should not be there should not be even thought of. Everybody has his mandate. The chiefs have their mandate as well as the assistant chiefs and the wananchi have more confidence in non-elected leaders than elected leaders when it comes to solving their problems. This is because they think that those that they never voted in will not look at them impartially. But the Civil Service is impartial in delivering its services. ` I support this Bill. It should be passed within the term of this Parliament and it should not wait for the next Parliament, so that as we go to the next level of Government everybody will feel secure of his position---"
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