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    "content": "Governor from one community while the Deputy Governor comes from another community. The idea is to bring people together. In fact, you will find the same scenario in Narok County and Trans Nzoia. If you go to north eastern, one clan brings the Governor and the other clan brings the Deputy Governor and yet most of these deputy governors are ignored when it comes to the running of the county. In fact, the greatest concern for me in terms of devolution is that most deputy governors are either flower girls or page boys. It is important that there is a forum where we are going to come together and think about the county because some of these governors have completely forgotten that they won the election by the assistance of the Deputy Governor. Even it means balancing the constituencies where you have a Governor coming from one constituency and the Deputy Governor coming from another corner of the county to give the balance of the county. So, this leadership forum is very unique and important. It gives us a balance and the representation of the minority and marginalized communities. It makes everybody feel part and parcel of the county governance particularly because it is not legislative. So, the tyranny of numbers does not occur because it is a peer review forum. Even if you come from the smallest community, you are able to be heard at the county level. Madam Temporary Speaker, when citizens want to petition to be heard, they will be able to come and say: Can the County Development Board discuss this issue? If you look at matters of security, some of the reasons why there is insecurity in certain counties is because one clan is pulling against the other. In some situations, it even goes beyond the county. In one county, a particular clan has the leadership while in the next county the clan which is the minority has the leadership. So, it is important that we have that forum to sit together and discuss matters to do with security which are matters of the national level. In fact, I do not know why our Governors are so concerned about infringement of the functions of the county government and they are not concerned about the infringement of the concerns of national Government. The Members of the National Assembly are representing, to a great extent, the roles that the national Government is doing. For that reason, that is the opportunity for us to ask them; During the Budget for the national Government, what is there in it that is going to come to the county this financial year like a road, a manufacturing plant, a university or a polytechnic? So, we must look at the benefits that this forum brings. It brings harmony and unity. We will avoid situations where we are speaking at cross purposes and leaders will be speaking together particularly when it comes to matters security. So, I want to allay all the fears that our county Governors had. Most of them think that Senators are just supposed to be in Nairobi and they fear that we are going to take up their jobs. I want to be very candid that most of us who are here have had great experience in passing legislation in Parliament while some of us are lawyers. Before I ran for the position of Senator, I had done clear auditing and research as to what Senators and Governors should do and we are not interested in being Governors. What we only want is to ensure that we play our role in how our counties are run in terms of contributing ideas and advice. I like what Sen. Okong’o said that giving advice does not mean that the other parties must follow it, but at least you will sleep as leaders knowing that that message 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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