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    "content": "The County Representative may say a few things, but he will just be seen to be in opposition, populist and so on. Madam Temporary Speaker, a reform of the Provincial Administration does not just involve the change of names, for example, instead of a Provincial Commissioner or a District Commissioner which was part of the Provincial Administration, you now call them regional commissioners or county commissioners because the name has changed from provincial to county which is now a county government. It does not just involve that. It does not involve changing the offices. If you were operating say from Kakamega, you now come to Nairobi and operate from an office in Nairobi and change the name from Provincial Administration to regional commissioner. To me, the fact that the Provincial Administration has been there since the colonial times up to today, and I must say, served its own useful purposes for the governments of the day at that time, and it has gone into the psyche of the people, we cannot change that culture without at least changing not just the name but the entire process of governance at the county level. As I stated earlier, we must start by amending the appropriate legislations even to get away from the word “commissioner” which is associated with colonialism. It is associated with that period in our history when we had dictatorship in this country. We must remove the word “commissioner” and maybe call them what we called them under Majimbo; national government agents or representatives or some other name so that people realize that things are changing. Even the houses where they are staying must really go to the governors and so on. Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank the Mover of the Motion for having been very detailed in his submission on this matter, and all those who have spoken on this matter and who have suffered the inequities of the Provincial Administration, like the professors and so on. I will not go very much into it. What I really want is to ensure as Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights that this select Committee we are appointing today actually does work and helps the Senate in achieving its objectives. I believe Sen. Hassan is not here, I was going through the merit of all these people who are proposed as members of the Committee and I would like to inform you that actually seven of these Members including the Chair are Members of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. Therefore, those additional actually add value to the work that is going to be done. I want to propose that the only Member that has been left out from the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights is my very able Vice Chairman, Sen. Stephen Kipyego Sang. A lady, whom I know has been on the forefront of fighting for democratic space in this country, I want to add, is Senator Ongoro Masha. I want to add Sen. Gideon Moi who is a Chair of a very important Committee and Senator Lenny Kivuti who is also a Chair of a very important Committee. The myriad of those Committees all relate to what provincial administrators do in terms of development in their respective areas. I want to move that the Motion be amended by inserting the following names immediately after the name of Sen. (Dr.) Boni Khalwale. 1. Sen. Ongoro Masha 2. Sen. Stephen Sang The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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