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"content": "motor vehicles and not their private cars. They include the following: The President, the Deputy President, the Chief Justice, and a Speaker of the House of Parliament. At the moment, the Speaker of the Senate has, unfortunately, been illegally flying the National Flag. There is no law that allows the Speaker of the Senate to fly the flag. So, if we enact this particular Bill into law, now the Speaker of the Senate will have an opportunity to legally fly the flag. I am providing that a Cabinet Secretary (CS) and the Attorney-General be allowed to fly the flag. There was a small error when we were publishing this Bill, which I will be correcting in the Committee Stage, if the House so allows. I would like to provide that a critical officer who we always overlook, the Auditor-General, who is at par with the Attorney-General, be recognized both by way of flying a flag and also at public fora. This is because without this man, there is no way you will kill corruption in this country. It is thanks to the Auditor-General that we can now return the Kshs300 billion that we lose in every financial year for purposes of causing development in the country. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like, subject to Sub-Section 2, to allow the Governor of the county to fly the flag. If this Bill will allow, we can entitle the Governor of the county to fly the National Flag on an official motor vehicle only within the boundaries of his or her county. Let me tell you why. I had originally been persuaded that the Governor should not fly the flag at all because, ordinarily, he should not fly a flag. However, what persuaded me, otherwise, was the benefit of hindsight; that I was seeing down there in Mombasa some people shouting “ Pwani si Kenya.” Originally I wanted Governors to fly the county flags, because this is the best thing. But then I said, if you do this, then the guy who is the Governor in Pwani, because he is not reminded that he is a Governor within Kenya by seeing a flag ahead of him, he can easily start imagining and thinking that Pwani si Kenya or Turkana si Kenya, because really, what drives our people is the question of the selfish desire that local resources should not be treated as the common wealth of the Republic of Kenya. So, I am proposing that we allow the Governor to fly the flag on his official car within the county. Once he leaves the county, he has no business flying the flag whatsoever, because what is the Governor of Kakamega trying to remind the people of Kisumu when he arrives in Kisumu Town? Who cares that he is the Governor of Kakamega in Kisumu? Madam Temporary Speaker, the other critical issue is that of the use of titles; this is very important. I have created a new schedule to this Act called Schedule Four. This schedule is as follows. It gives the official titles of State Officers. I am proposing that the President be referred, if it is a man, as His Excellency; and if it is a lady, as Her Excellency; and that his or her deputy be referred to as His or Her Excellency the Deputy President. The Speakers of either House to now be elevated, not to be called ‘honorable’ but “The Right Honorable Speaker” and by extension, the Deputy Speaker will be called “The Right Honorable Deputy Speaker.” There has been a lot of confusion about the title of the Senator; we are being called “ Mheshimiwa;” or “honorable;” we are being called all manner of things. The practice in the USA, where the presidential system obtains, is that a Senator is referred to by the plain term “Senator.” For example, “Senator Mositet, the Senator for Kajiado” or “Senator (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, the Senator for West Pokot.” 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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