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    "id": 346628,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kapondi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 36,
        "legal_name": "Fred Chesebe Kapondi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill which we went through as a Committee. It is very clear in the Constitution that the national Government is devolved up to the grassroots level. The county Government has its work cut out in the Constitution. What this Bill seeks to correct is a notion which is deeply rooted amongst a few of us that as a governor, you are like the president of the county. However, the Constitution is very clear. The President who carries out national functions must have his officers down at the county level. His work is cut out very clearly. What the governor does is defined in the Constitution. What the Provincial Administration would be doing is cut out in the Constitution too. I am happy that today, the administrators out there, have heard it loud and clear that they are protected even without this Bill. What this Bill has done is to give them the confidence that their jobs are there, and to clearly state to any doubting Thomas, that the administrators are there to stay because their work to this country is very useful. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want us to pause and imagine for a moment a situation whereby the national Government is divorced at the county level. Take, for instance, a situation in Samburu where we had the massacre in Baragoi and another one in Turkana. If a governor was the embodiment of all the functions at the county level, what would have happened? What would have happened is basically an invasion of one county by another one. That is because the security organs of that particular county would be answerable directly to the governor. So, this Bill is critical in terms of creating harmony. With that, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to say that---"
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