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    "content": "House is doing and the legality of this Bill to be before this House. It says that the Provincial Administration will be restructured. So, what this Bill is doing is restructuring. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill came to this House after wider stakeholder consultation where the Office of the President, the stakeholders plus the Transition Authority sat with the Constitution Implementation Commission (CIC) and came up with this Bill. So, this Bill, in my opinion, up to this stage has a consensus from the stakeholders, and Parliament, in its wisdom, will look at all the amendments at a later stage. I want to speak for the pastoralist community. The pastoralist community will not live and ignore the role and importance of chiefs, DCs and DOs. You can imagine a rogue or governor who will not step where he did not get votes. I know hon. Isaac Ruto’s Bomet County and where I come from will have a diplomatic relationship, but you can imagine if you did not vote for that Governor and you are from the pastoralist community and a conflict happens. That Governor will support the warring clan where he comes from. For that reason, we want the national Government’s presence at all levels. Those who claim that there is a conflict between the devolved system of Government and the national Government are not being factual. I want to say it here very clearly that the golden chance that Kenyans have in a devolved system of Government does not give the legal mandate for us to say: “No, we cannot have---” The constitutional provisions allow for a restructured Provincial Administration. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, service delivery coordination---"
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